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Product

Maytag MDB8959SBS3

Category

Kitchen Appliance

Report number

20170324-C7DA7-2147404912

Ownership age

About 35 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20170324-C7DA7-2147404912. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: maytag MDB8959SBS3 (maytag dishwasher-24" wide-serial number-F41426003 Model number-MDB8959SBS3). Incident: We bought this Maytag dishwasher on 5-5-14, so its not even 3 years old, we did not buy the extended warranty-wish we had now, because yesterday morning i started the dishwasher like i do every day, and we heard 2 pops, and then the dishwasher started smoking. We turned the breaker off, and opened the door-smoke everywhere, it has started on fire. After it cooled down, we took the front panel off, and the plug where it attaches to the brain of the unit was burned, and the wires melted together. This thing could have burned our house down, if we would have went outside to do our farm chores 10 minutes earlier we may not have had a house to come back to-A newer machine should not do this-so now we have to replace it and it cost $772-and now we are out a machine. The Model number is MDB8959SBS3-very upsetting.

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