Product
GE PDW9980N20SS
Category
Kitchen Appliance
Report number
20160315-57041-2147420910
Ownership age
About 96 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)
Failure type
Fire / ignition
Incident narrative
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20160315-57041-2147420910. Severity: Unspecified. Matched catalog product: GE PDW9980N20SS. Incident: GE dishwasher PDW9980N20SS, element would not turn off and overheated so much that the plastic items melted onto the element and nearly caused a fire. Destroyed my sishwasher and house smelled horrible.
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