At first, Melissa Thaxton, 32, of Dallas, Ga. thought her Samsung washing machine was a lifesaver.
“It was just perfect,” Thaxton said.
But she says that changed on the morning of April 8, 2016. Thaxton says she was standing next to the running machine when it exploded.
“It was the loudest sound. It sounded like a bomb went off in my ear,” Thaxton said. “There were wires, nuts, the cover actual was laying on the floor.”
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/cpsc-issues...ry?id=42405123
Update 11/4/16:
Samsung and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission are recalling 2.8 million of Samsung's top-loading washing machines after reports that 730 units exploded, resulting in nine injuries, the CPSC announced today on “Good Morning America.”
“We’re talking about ... a very serious hazard of the top of these washing machines completely blowing off,” Elliot Kaye, the chairman of the CPSC, told “GMA” Investigates in an interview that aired Friday on “GMA.” “It is a lot of reports.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/samsung-cps...ry?id=43291726
