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Product

Kenmore 795-77314-6000

Category

Kitchen Appliance

Report number

20140821-6A073-2147441712

Ownership age

About 41 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20140821-6A073-2147441712. Severity: Injury, Seen by Medical Professional. Matched catalog product: Kenmore 795-77314-6000. Source model text: 253.79184. Incident: I have a Kenmore air and heat unit. The control panel shorted out and caught the inside of the unit on fire and the unit was not even running at the time and had not been running for several days, it was plugged into the electrical outlet and off. My father in law has the same unit and the control panel on his smoked and Sears had to replace the control panel. Mine did more than smoke, it ignited the inside of the unit in the middle of the night and almost killed me and my wife. These units have a defective control panels and they are shorting out and causing fires.

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