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In December 2020, a pressure cooker lawsuit was filed against Breville USA, Inc. by Todd J., a man from Georgia who was severely injured by a recalled Breville Fast-Slow Pressure Cooker. He was burned on January 5, 2018 when he opened the lid on a recalled Breville Fast-Slow Pressure Cooker (Model Number BRP600XL-120). According to the lawsuit, he was able to easily twist open the lid when the...

January 11, 2021 — A lawsuit has been filed by a man who was severely burned by hot food that blew out of his Cuisinart Pressure Cooker. The lawsuit was filed by Gary S., a man from Huntington Beach, California, who owned a Cuisinart® 6-Quart Electric Pressure Cooker (Model #CPC-600). On January 6, 2019, he claims he opened the lid on his pressure cooker, which caused “its scalding hot...

November 24, 2020 — Just in time for Thanksgiving, 940,000 Crock-Pot® Express Pressure Cookers were recalled after 99 reports of burn injuries. Sunbeam Products warned that the lid can detach on the Crock-Pot® 6-Quart Express Crock Multi-Cookers and cause an explosion of hot food and liquid. The recalled pressure cookers were linked to at least 99 reports of burn injuries ranging in severity...

November 20, 2020 — NuWave LLC has been hit with a lawsuit after a woman was burned when her Nutri-Pot Pressure Cooker exploded as she opened the lid. The lawsuit was filed by Tiffany B., a woman from Indiana who claims she was injured on December 10, 2018 as a result of defective safety features on her Nutri-Pot Pressure Cooker. Tiffany was burned on her stomach and legs when she opened the...

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...