Anthropologie potholders, oven mitts or hot pads
1 report to CPSC, the latest made Mar 1, 2012. A report isn’t a recall.
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- 1report to CPSC
- Mar 1, 2012the latest report was made
- Mar 1, 2012the earliest
- 1with the company’s comments
- Brand
- Anthropologie
- Maker
- ANTHROPOLOGIEMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- Potholders, oven mitts or hot padsCPSC’s product type: Potholders, Oven Mitts or Hot Pads (code 436), in Kitchen: Gadgets & Utensils
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
|---|---|
| March 2012 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury
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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No one hurt Made Mar 1, 2012, sent to the company Mar 9, 2012, published by CPSC Mar 23, 2012
The product, in the report: The oven mitt was purchased around Christmas 2011 at an Anthropologie Store. (www.anthropologie.com) and based upon the tenant’s description (purple with pink flower print, quilted cotton, fabric loop for hanging) was style #21235684.
An apartment tenant was baking in her kitchen over. After opening the oven door she pulled out bottom rack prior to removing a cookie sheet. While doing this she was wearing a oven mitt made of cotton. This mitt extended two to three inches beyond her finger tips and must have inadvertently contacted the bottom electric heating element inside oven. The bottom element was within 5-inches of the rack’s front edge.
This contact went un-noticed and tenant re-hung her oven mitt in the pantry closet. Approximately 10-minutes later she was alerted by a smoke alarm sounding and discovered a fire inside the pantry closet.
The subsequent origin and cause investigation determined the first item ignited was the cotton oven mitt. No ignition sources were found inside the pantry closet. Based upon the tenant’s statement, reenactment and physical evidence remaining this investigator concluded the following:
- The oven mitt came into contact with the hot element inside the electric oven.
- This contact resulted in the ignition of the cotton mitt, just a smoldering ember that went unnoticed by the tenant.
- The smoldering oven mitt was hung in the pantry closet where it fully ignited and ignited other items inside the closet.
- The oven mitt was purchased around Christmas 2011 at an Anthropologie Store. (www.anthropologie.com) and based upon the tenant’s description was style #21235684.
- The kitchen range was a [REDACTED] electric range, Model # [REDACTED] and s/n [REDACTED].
It is the opinion of this investigator that two design deficiencies interacting resulted in this ignition.
1. The material selection of the oven mitt had no fire resistive qualities and should not have been in use near ignition sources or hot surfaces.
2. The design of the oven’s bottom electric heating element extended forward too close to the front edge of the bottom oven rack and did not have adequate clearance for a hand to grasp the bottom rack to pull it forward.
- Model
- style #21235684
- Bought from
- Anthropologie
- Where
- Easton, Pennsylvania: Home/
Apartment/ Condominium - Who was involved
- Age 21, Female
- The reporter’s relation to them
- Unspecified
- As this report names them
- Brand Anthropologie, made or sold by ANTHROPOLOGIE
- Reports CPSC links to it
- 20120302-88C18-1235031
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Incident, No Injury
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