Product
Kenmore 795-77314-6000
Category
Kitchen Appliance
Report number
20110813-88427-2147476287
Ownership age
About 61 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)
Failure type
Fire / ignition
Incident narrative
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20110813-88427-2147476287. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Kenmore 795-77314-6000. Source model text: 795.77559600. Incident: We have a Kenmore Elite Trio refrigerator which we purchased in the summer of 2006. Today, we discovered that the light cover had begun to melt on top of the refrigerator. When we removed it, we found that the casing all around it had started to melt and the bulbs were clearly too hot. Some of the food in the refrigerator, including some butter, which had melted, were heated by this. It was very concerning to think that this, had we been out of town at this point, could very easily have caused a fire in our home. After researching a bit online, I see that this is not an unusual problem with these refrigerators and am very concerned that there should be a recall on this item!!
Official report number: 20110813-88427-2147476287. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.