RHEEM / PLASCO FOR THE PAN ? oil furnaces
1 report to CPSC, the latest made Jan 15, 2025. A report isn’t a recall.
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- 1report to CPSC
- Jan 15, 2025the latest report was made
- Jan 15, 2025the earliest
- 0with the company’s comments
- Brand
- RHEEM / PLASCO FOR THE PAN ?
- Maker
- Rheem Sales Company, IncMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- Oil furnacesCPSC’s product type: Oil Furnaces (code 311), in Home Maintenance and Structures: Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
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| January 2025 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- Hurt, care not known 1 CPSC: Injury, Level of care not known
As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.
The reports, as CPSC published them
Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.
Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.
CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.
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Hurt, care not known Made Jan 15, 2025, sent to the company Jan 17, 2025, published by CPSC Feb 3, 2025
The product, in the report: The plastic drain pan is attached to the A/C evaporator coil to remove condensate water when the A/C is operating. The pan is available separately as a replacement part. The A/C evaporator coil is a Rheem Model # RCF3621STAMCA / SERIAL # W331922763. The plastic pan looks like it has the name Plasco on it, but the name is faded and any numbers are blurred.
On 12/22/24 we started to notice an acrid smell coming from all of our heating air ducts. The smell lasted for two days and when a technician arrived on 12/24/24 the smell was gone. The technician checked the furnace to make sure that it was operating properly and also checked for any possible carbon monoxide. He could find nothing wrong at that time with the furnace. On 12/29/24 the smell returned, and a technician came out on 12/30/24. The furnace had been serviced by this same company in September 2024 for the winter season. The furnace and A/C system was installed new by this same company in September 2019. This company is in the local area and has been in business for 75 years. With further inspection by the technician on 12/30/24 it was determined that the plastic drain pan under the A/C evaporator coil was actually burning and scorching from the heat of the oil furnace. Our furnace and A/C iis called an up-flow setup. The A/C evaporator coil sits directly over the oil burner furnace enclosed by the furnace sides. This is a standard normal installation. It is incomprehensible to me why anyone would put a plastic drain pan over a heat source. I was told by the company that installed the furnace that plastic drain pans are the standard in the industry. In my opinion it should be made of aluminum like the evaporator coil. The pan is available separately from the coil, but my concern is that if they put in the same plastic pan, I will have the same problem a few years from now. I am concerned of a possible fire hazard and health hazard from the fumes coming from the scorched and burning plastic. The second time this happened on 12/30/24, I had a burning of my eyes and a slight headache. I read of a recall concerning other plastic drain pans manufactured by Goodman manufacturing. I strongly suggest that this issue be investigated
- Model
- RCF3621STAMCA
- UPC
- N/
A - Serial number
- W331922763
- Bought from
- Brubaker, Inc.
- Bought
- Sep 23, 2019
- Where
- East Petersburg, Pennsylvania: Home/
Apartment/ Condominium - Who was involved
- Unspecified
- The reporter’s relation to them
- Unspecified
- As this report names them
- Brand RHEEM /
PLASCO FOR THE PAN ?, made or sold by Rheem Sales Company, Inc - How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Injury, Level of care not known
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.
Released Oct 25, 2026 and checked Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.
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