since some mods were not updated yet, i canceled my playthrough of a fantario game and started from scratch. all worked well until i wanted to place the first burner inserter which crashed with exact the same message as above:
The mod Burner Leech caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.
Error while running event Burner-Leech::on_nth_tick(1)
Burner-Leech/control.lua:216: attempt to index a nil value
stack traceback:
Burner-Leech/control.lua:216: in function 'leech'
Burner-Leech/control.lua:122: in function <Burner-Leech/control.lua:89>
i am using the newest versions (as of last afternoon, factorio 0.18.4 and burner leech 2.1.2) and lots of other mods, including fantario, burner fuel bonus, more long inserters, and maybe even one or two other mods that deal with inserters.
while writing this, i checked the mod portal and there is a new version 2.1.4 from today ...
testing now ...
it seems to work !