Combustibles-

Products, which can be used in the vicinity of combustibles or generated sparks, need to be protected from such hazards either by design or warning labeling (on product or in the manuals). It's usually the inadvertent use of products near these types of exposures that can create product failures.

Examples of Combustible caused product failures:

• Fireworks throwing sparks onto the plastic awnings, which are 'weather hardened' and assumed to be hardened for anything.
• BBQ Grills give off heat sufficient to melt plastic eating ware placed on an attached shelf, which was intended for such use.
• While filling a gasoline engine next to a 'weather hardened' toolbox; the fuel spills onto the box and leaks into it through an ill-fitting top hinge. The fuel was later ignited accidentally.
• A hand-held fire-starter burns the user because the hot tip is not protected.
• Welding equipment, grinding wheels and power tools used in confined areas of high dust particles like sawdust can quickly start fires.
• From a concerned friend - "A classic and heart breaking example is the use of Hummer vechicles in Iraq where the doors and wheel wells were not properly armor plated to prevent damage and loss of life with road land mines. This to me is the classic of all unspecified"