Sam, I haven't burned myself (so far) but I did wrench my back picking up and moving an ECB. They tell you to keep the load close to your body when you lift... but if the load is a pan full of burning charcoal, your natural tendency is to hold it at arm's length. So I hobbled around for a month as a result. The worst part was that I work as a safety consultant. So my thought wasn't just"Stupid!" it was, "Stupid! You get paid to tell people not to do this kind of thing."
Switching to the larger Brinkmann pan will help avoid such mishaps in the future. You might also consider bending or otherwise modifying the ends of the brackets (there was a thread some time ago on the subject) to make it harder for the lip of the pan to slip off. The Brinkmann pan's lip is turned down at the edge, so putting a small sheet metal screw in the end of each bracket would almost lock the pan into place (as far as side-to-side movement goes).
