[Stoves] Hazards for Institutional Biomass Cooking Stoves

[Lanny Henson]

I need liability insurance for an institutional size wood cooking stove that I would like to market in the USA as well as outside the USA. 

I need a list of stove hazards, problems and solutions for a presentation to an insurance underwriter.

Is anyone else working on this? I have started a list and I would appreciate your input and comments.

Lanny Henson

Hazards for Institutional Biomass Cooking Stoves

  1.. Hot surfaces that can cause burns
  2.. Cook space air pollution
  3.. Tip over
  4.. Bump spill not steady footing
  5.. Hot handles 
  6.. Over fire run away fire, out of control fire (batch burners)
  7.. Hot coals spill out, roll out or puff out igniting combustibles. 
  8.. Flame containment, not enough distance to combustibles.
  9.. Hot stove surfaces, not enough distance to combustibles.
  10.. Structural integrity, falls apart, burns up, door fails, legs breaks off
  11.. Sharp edges that can cut or scrape
  12.. Sparks out the exhaust that could ignite combustibles 
  13.. Volume of fuel in a batch could be a factor. example 12 kg of wood in a wood space heater verses 1 kg of wood in a cook stove. 12 kg has the potential to do more harm than 1 kg.
  14.. Pot spill from difficult access. Like lifting a pot from a sunken pot stove.
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