Enerco Sued Over Recalled DeWalt Portable Heaters Catching Fire

Enerco Group Inc. was hit with a proposed class action alleging that DeWalt portable cordless heaters can overheat and catch fire, posing a fire and burn hazard.

Alan Purdy, who sued April 11 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, seeks to represent a nationwide class and Ohio subclass of purchasers of the defective heaters. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has received nearly a dozen reports of thermal incidents involving the heaters, which have been recalled, the complaint said.

Purdy wouldn’t have purchased the heater or would have paid “significantly less” for it had he known ...