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November 17, 2020 — A young mother from Sydney, Australia was severely burned when the lid exploded off her pressure cooker, narrowly missing two children. Giovanna, 36, said she was using a Crofton Chef’s Collection 6L Pressure Cooker to cook chicken soup for dinner on Sunday night — but “after 10 or 15 minutes on the heat, it just blew up by itself,” she told Yahoo News...

In September 2020, a man from Virginia filed a lawsuit after he was burned by a Power Pressure Cooker XL that spewed hot food out of the pot when he opened the lid. The lawsuit was filed by Christopher S., a man from Fredericksburg, Virginia who was injured by his pressure cooker on October 13, 2018. The pressure cooker is the Power Pressure Cooker XL, which is manufactured by Tristar Products...

A lawsuit was filed against Cuisinart by a family who say their electric pressure cooker from QVC exploded boiling-hot food when they opened the lid. The lawsuit was filed Bianca and Eduar A., a couple from New Jersey who bought their Cuisinart Electric Pressure Cooker from the QVC Home-Shopping TV Network in December 2015. In December 2018, while Bianca and her daughter were using their...

Six lawsuits have been filed by people who were burned by CrockPot Pressure Cookers that exploded hot food when they opened the lid. All six lawsuits accuse Sunbeam Products and its parent company, Newell Brands, of putting profits over public safety by continuing to sell a defective and dangerous product. According to the lawsuits, the problem is that the CrockPot Express Pressure Cooker was...

In July 2020, Maxi-Matic USA was hit with yet another lawsuit involving a person who was burned by a pressure cooker that exploded. The lawsuit alleges that Maxi-Matic and Pick Five Imports Inc. sold a defective pressure cooker that exploded boiling-hot food and liquid. The plaintiff was burned as a result of opening the pressure cooker’s lid while there was still a dangerous amount of...

In March 2020, a woman from Louisiana filed a lawsuit after she was severely burned by an exploding Instant Pot pressure cooker.

A woman from California who was burned by an exploding Instant Pot pressure cooker has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer.

Sunbeam Products, a brand of electric home appliances, is on the receiving end of even more litigation after a lawsuit claiming a Crock-Pot pressure cooker exploded when the lid was opened.

A woman in Colorado was severely burned by an exploding Nattork® Electric Pressure Cooker and required skin-graft surgeries.