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Official U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission consumer incident report from the SaferProducts.gov public database. Use the verification links below to confirm the record on SaferProducts.gov or via the public database export.

Product

LG WT1501CW

Category

Kitchen Appliance

Report number

20220210-FA8EC-2147357624

Ownership age

Not stated

Failure type

Explosion / rupture

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20220210-FA8EC-2147357624. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: LG WT1501CW. Incident: I was using LG washing machine model WT1501CW to wash a load of clothes and the machine exploded. The machine was on its final spin with less then 20 minutes left as I had just checked on it. The drum broke loose from the motor and caused it to shake violently causing the lid to come apart, the sides to break away, inside parts to be thrown out of the machine, and wall damage to my home as it banged into the wall. Thankfully, nobody was in the room when it did this so no one was hurt, but had I still been in the room with it I would have been hurt.

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Official report number: 20220210-FA8EC-2147357624. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.