<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><base href="x-msg://21/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Lanny, have you had a look at the safety protocol suggested by Nathan Johnson? It is available on the legacy website of PCIA on the bottom of the page <a href="http://www.pciaonline.org/testing">http://www.pciaonline.org/testing</a>. It actually operationalizes most of the issues you are raising. <div>regards Christa<br><div><div>Am 12.03.2013 um 20:45 schrieb Lanny Henson <<a href="mailto:lannych@bellsouth.net">lannych@bellsouth.net</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span lang="EN"><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><ol><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>_______________________________________________<br>Stoves mailing list<br><br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site:<br><a href="http://www.bioenergylists.org/">http://www.bioenergylists.org/</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>