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  • Samsung, CPSC Recalling 2.8 Million Top-Loading Washing Machines Due to Risk of Explosion

    11/04/2016 5:44:08 PM PDT · by Swordmaker · 46 replies
    Yahoo.com ^ | November 4, 2016 | By GERRY WAGSCHAL, GIO BENITEZ and CONOR FERGUSON
    Samsung and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission are recalling 2.8 million of Samsung's top-loading washing machines after reports that 730 units exploded, resulting in nine injuries, the CPSC announced today on “Good Morning America.” “We’re talking about ... a very serious hazard of the top of these washing machines completely blowing off,” Elliot Kaye, the chairman of the CPSC, told “GMA” Investigates in an interview that aired Friday on “GMA.” “It is a lot of reports.” Kaye said the tops of the affected units weren’t “secured enough based on a design failure. And the top just completely blows off.”...