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<P><FONT size=4>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.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>I need a list of stove hazards, problems and solutions for a
presentation to an insurance underwriter.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>Is anyone else working on this? I have started a list and I
would appreciate your input and comments.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>Lanny Henson</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>Hazards for Institutional Biomass Cooking Stoves</FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT size=4>Hot surfaces that can cause burns</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Cook space air pollution</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Tip over</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Bump spill not steady footing</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Hot handles </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Over fire run away fire, out of control fire (batch
burners)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Hot coals spill out, roll out or puff out igniting
combustibles. </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Flame containment, not enough distance to
combustibles.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Hot stove surfaces, not enough distance to
combustibles.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Structural integrity, falls apart, burns up, door fails, legs
breaks off</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Sharp edges that can cut or scrape</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Sparks out the exhaust that could ignite combustibles
</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>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.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=4>Pot spill from difficult access. Like lifting a pot from a
sunken pot stove.</FONT></LI></OL></SPAN></BODY></HTML>