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February 23, 2021 — Two more lawsuits have been filed against Tristar Products by people who were burned by a Power Pressure Cooker XL. In both lawsuits, the plaintiffs claim they suffered “serious and substantial burn injuries” when hot food, liquid or steam exploded out of a Power Pressure Cooker XL when they opened the lid. Furthermore, both lawsuits accuse Tristar of falsely...

February 16, 2021 — A pressure cooker lawsuit has been filed by a woman from New York who was burned by a Fagor EZ Lock Pressure Cooker that exploded when she opened the lid. The lawsuit was filed by Mirsada M., a woman who suffered “serious and substantial burn injuries” on February 23, 2018, as a result of being able to open the lid on her pressure cooker before it was safe. The...

February 12, 2021 — A lawsuit has been filed by a woman who was burned when she opened the lid on her Presto Pressure Cooker. The lawsuit was filed by Toni G., 35, a woman from Georgia who bought a brand-new Presto 6-Quart Programmable Electric Pressure Cooker in January 2019. Just three weeks after buying the pressure cooker, she suffered “serious and substantial burn injuries” on...

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...