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Product

Westinghouse WSFSER18385

Category

Home & Garden

Report number

20260720-4867F-2147313666

Ownership age

About 2 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Explosion / rupture

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20260720-4867F-2147313666. Severity: No Incident, No Injury. Product: Westinghouse WSFSER18385 (From the product listing: Westinghouse 18" Digital Pedestal Stand Fan with Remote Control, Floor Fan It is a black pedestal fan.). Incident: The product: Westinghouse 18" Digital Pedestal Stand Fan with Remote Control, Floor Fan Purchased from Walmart. I have owned a fan for less than 6 weeks. I only used it for a few hours each day. I assembled and used it according to instructions. Last night the blade came apart, basically exploded and shattered small sharp bits of plastic all around the room. The fan was not exactly cheap to buy, but the blade felt incredibly cheap as I was assembling it. There was absolutely a risk of someone being injured from the shards of sharp plastic that went flying, as well as from the ones that remained scattered on the floor. The cage of the fan successfully caught most of the bigger shards, but if it had broken in a different pattern and while the fan was at a different angle in its oscillation, the plastic could have absolutely caused a severe injury

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Official report number: 20260720-4867F-2147313666. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.