Source | PR Newswire

Edward Lampert, Head of Sears, Profits From Sales of 800,000 Unsafe Stoves Annually; 12 Million Sears Stoves in Use in U.S. Households Today

WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, today characterized the announcement in Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine that Edward S. Lampert, founder of hedge fund ESL Investments and chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation, took home more than $1 billion on his investments last year as “excessive
greed.”

According to The New York Times, Lampert has $11 billion of his $14.6 billion ESL fund in the retailer Sears. Sears stock rose during the last year, enriching Lampert’s fortune by approximately $1.3 billion.

“Lampert-led Sears has raked in huge profits but failed to protect the public from harmful Sears products, such as 800,000 unsafe stoves sold annually in this country,” Claybrook said. “With the use of cost-cutting, lighter-gauge steel, these freestanding gas and electric ranges tip over easily. They are responsible for more than 100 reported cases of death and injury from scalding and burns due to hot foods and liquids spilling from the stove top when the stove tips over, and from the weight crushing anyone in the path of the tipping ranges.”

The history of unsafe stoves is sobering. Sears has known about this problem for years and yet done nothing. In December 1986, Sears staff members were told to secure the stoves. However, after informing installation managers in 1987 that the anti-tip devices “will be very simple [to install] in most cases” and “should require very little time,”
an internal Sears memo documents that the brackets were usually not installed. Following the development of an industry-wide voluntary standard by Underwriters Laboratories and reevaluating the situation in 1994, Sears decided it would “take no action to provide installation of anti-tip devices.” A 1996 internal Sears memo estimates that the brackets were installed in only 2-5 percent of ranges sold.

A few years later in a 1999 letter to Sears, Underwriters Laboratories wrote that it expected ranges with the UL Listing Mark to be installed with anti-tip safety devices supplied by the manufacturers. In a highly misleading letter, Sears responded that its vendors and suppliers had assured them that their ranges “have the proper components, warnings and
instructions to be in full compliance with the UL 858 [requirements].” Sears failed to note that it was not installing the brackets as required.

The retailer also failed to protect its customers after the U.S. Consumer Protect Safety Commission sent incident reports. They document horrific stove-tipping injuries and deaths, mostly involving children and the elderly.

Claybrook called on Lampert and the other sellers of freestanding ranges to stop these horrible and yet preventable injuries. “Retailers of these unsafe stoves need to notify all owners of the danger of tipping and to install the brackets for any stove sold to date and going forward.”

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Source | Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers

Protect Against Range Tipping

AHAM recently released a statement to the media on the importance of installing the anti-tip device that is provided with all ranges. 

Did you know that improperly installed free-standing, slide-in and built-in kitchen ranges can tilt forward when someone applies too much pressure to an open oven door? 

The result may be injuries from the tipped range or scalds and burns from hot food and liquids.

1) Make sure the proper anti-tip device is installed correctly. If you are remodeling your kitchen, buying a new range or building a new home, make sure the installer uses the anti-tip device provided by the manufacturer. Contact your range manufacturer, your appliance dealer or an authorized servicer for information and assistance.

2) Always keep the range door closed when not in use!

3) Never use the door as a step stool, seat or as a support for body weight or other objects.
Please be safety conscious when using a range and other appliances. Use them only for the tasks they are designed to do.

Consumers are urged to check whether an anti-tip device has been installed.  Look under the range to see if an anti-tip device is installed on the floor (possibly affixed to the rear leg of the range), or gently pull the back of the range to see if it pulls off the floor.  For your safety, you should not tilt the range more than 2 inches off the floor.

If you are a consumer seeking information or wish to obtain an anti-tip device, please find the brand of your range in the list below.  Please have the model and serial number available when calling the manufacturer.   The model and serial number can be found on the serial tag.

Serial tags may be located by opening the drawer of your free-standing or slide in range. For drop in style units, look at the edge of the oven door.  The specific location will vary by model, but it can be found on the inside of the oven door.

AGA
 877-650-5775 
 
Amana
 800-253-1301
 
American
 800-251-7224
 
Bosch
 800-944-2904
 
Brentwood
 800-251-7224
 
Brown
 800-251-7224
 
Crosley
 800-253-1301
 
Electrolux
 866-335-1754
 
Estate  
 800-253-1301
 
Five Star
 800-251-7224
 
Frigidaire
 866-335-1754
 
GE
 800-626-8774
 
GE Profile
 800-626-8774
 
Gibson
 866-335-1754
 
Gold Chef
 800-251-7224
 
Heartland
 877-650-5775
 
Hotpoint
 800-626-8774
 
Ikea by Whirlpool
 800-253-1301

Imperial
 800-251-7224
 
Inglis
 800-253-1301
 
Jenn-Air
 800-422-1230
 
Kelvinator
 866-335-1754
 
KitchenAid
 800-422-1230
 
LG
 800-243-0000
 
Magic Chef
 800-253-1301
 
Maytag
 800-688-9900
 
Monogram
 800-626-8774
 
National
 800-251-7224
 
Roper
 800-253-1301
 
Sharp
 800-237-4277
 
Siemens
 866-447-4363
 
Tappan
 866-335-1754
 
Thermador
 800-735-4328
 
Town & Country
 800-251-7224
 
Viking
 888-845-4641
 
Whirlpool
 800-253-1301
 
White-Westinghouse
 866-335-1754
 
Wolf
 800-222-7820

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Source | MYSA

The number of accidents involving tipping stoves is growing. Consumer advocates and those who have been hurt by the tipping appliances say manufacturers just aren’t doing enough.

A report from the Consumer Product Safety Commission says, since 1980, tipping stoves have killed 33 people and injured at least 84. Last year, two people were killed and nine were injured, making it a 20-year high.

About 12 years ago, James Hablin was 18 months old. His mom was making dinner, and he managed to open the oven door and stand on top of it. As he did, the appliance tipped over, pouring boiling water all over him.

“He was screaming and crying,” said his mother, Stephanie Moran. “His eyes were just … there was nothing there.”

At the hospital, the report was grim. Hablin has second- and third-degree burns to 28 percent of his body.

The unbearable screaming, broken and blistered skin, and brutal but necessary surgery are still fresh in Moran’s mind.

“I was just like, ‘Oh, my God! This isn’t happening … It was hard for a long time.”

More often than not, the cause of the tipping stove is excessive weight on an open door.

That’s what happened to Deshanda Leshlay.

“I tried to move, but couldn’t move fast enough,” Leshlay said. “I started screaming … just a lot of pain.”

In 1986, attorney Dan Sciano brought the first case to light in San Antonio.

“The consequences are catastrophic,” Sciano said.

In that case a stove seared a 3-year-old’s arm off.

Since then, the cases have been stacking up.

“I can’t even add them up on all my toes, all my fingers,” Sciano said.

Manufacturers are to blame, he said, because they don’t use solutions like break-away doors or stabilizing brackets.

The documented danger goes back to 1969, Sciano said. And the stickers and labels manufacturers use don’t do enough, Sciano said.

“It’s a problem that’s well known … It’s a problem that everyone agrees needs to be addressed. The problem is right now it’s still not being addressed at the manufacturing level,” Sciano said.

The manufacturers say they have addressed the issue. Their industry Web site clearly states their position that, “if recommended installation guidelines are followed by properly installing the anti-tip device, the range will not tip.”

Home inspector Ray Daily says anti-tip devices do work. In 17 years and more than 2,500 San Antonio inspections, about 70 percent of homes do not have safety devices installed.

“We see it every day. The majority of anti-tip devices are missing,” Daily said.

Consumer groups are now calling for action.

“They knew about it and chose not to do anything. I didn’t know about it. Now, my son is burned and scarred for the rest of his life,” Moran said.

“The stove company should’ve fixed it. They don’t really care,” Hamblin said.

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Source | KHNL

The stove in your kitchen could be dangerous even when it’s not on.  In fact the danger has nothing to do with heat.  Instead, your stove could be at risk for tipping over.

Consumer safety experts say at least 100 children and senior citizens were either crushed, burned or scalded by their own stoves.

An estimated 20 million stoves were made and sold in the U.S., without the required safety brackets.   Therefore, the stoves can fall or tip over.

Consumer safety groups claim manufacturers and retailers have been aware of the problem for decades but, still did not install the necessary brackets. Consumer advocates now want manufacturers to retrofit all stoves in the U.S. with the anti-tip brackets.

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Source | USA Today

Consumer groups said Thursday that freestanding stoves and ovens are being installed improperly and could tip over, injuring or killing people. The groups say 26 people have died from toppling appliances.

Officials from Public Citizen, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and the Consumer Federation of America said freestanding stove and oven units have not been attached properly to walls or floors.

Brackets to secure the appliances are required to meet safety-testing company Underwriters Laboratories Inc.’s standards. But there are no laws that require the brackets to be used during installation.

Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, said appliance sellers and installers are not using the brackets, and as a result at least 26 people have died and 100 injured between 1980 and 2006 when appliances toppled onto people.

Since Underwriter Laboratories adopted the anchoring standard in 1991, falling stoves and ovens have been blamed for 18 deaths and 46 injuries, according to data compiled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Of these, only one death and three injuries were caused by stoves manufactured after 1991 that were installed without the brackets, commission spokesman Scott Wolfson said.

He said in an e-mail that the agency is “not aware of a single injury or fatality caused by the tipping over of a stove manufactured after 1991 and installed properly.”

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Source | Public Citizen 

The following is a chronology of what did the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) know about the freestanding range tip-over problem and when they know it:

• During a July 16, 1984 meeting between 9 CPSC representatives, predominantly from the Division of Electrical and Structural Engineering (ESES), and members of the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM), “Mr. Walter Blanck of AHAM stated that the manufacturers are addressing the problem with range tipover due to external forces on the open oven door.”
• In an internal CPSC memo dated September 24, 1984, a staffer of CPSC’s ESES division wrote: “Engineering was supplied information from the New Project Identification (NPI) Team regarding injuries that occur due to tipover of the free standing ranges. The injuries occur when the oven door is open for either heating the room or during cooking when a pan of food is placed on the door. One scenario is that during the time the oven door is open, a young child pushes downward on the edge of the door causing the unit to tip over onto the child. In addition, incidents of elderly people falling on open doors was also reported by the NPI team.”
• In the same memo, the same staffer acknowledged a July 1984 meeting with representatives of UL and AHAM to discuss improvement of the tipover requirement for free standing units.
• A few months later in a December 13, 1984 memo from the Electrical Hazards Program to the Commission, a CPSC staffer reported that during the July 1984 meeting with UL and AHAM “action was recommended to UL by AHAM to address the freestanding range tipover problems identified by staff and [these recommendations] have been incorporated into the standard.” Another CPSC meeting with UL was also planned for the third quarter of FY 1985 to talk about the Hazard Analysis and possible changes to the UL standard.
• In June 5, 1986, a CPSC New Project Identification form identified “range tipping over trapping person or spilling hot liquids on them” as a potential hazard. It also documented that “over period 1979-85 total of 25 incidents in which range tipped over.”
• One of the incidents reported before June of 1986 on a CPSC National Injury Information Clearinghouse sheet was that “a 71 year old female fell across the open door of the oven of her electric range.” The oven trapped her upper body between the door and the stove. “She died from asphyxiation due to compression of her chest.”
• By October 4, 1988, a CPSC NPI Action Request with the product entry blank completed as “elec. range tip-over” stated “several years ago UL (AHAM) was advised of injury data of tipover.” It went on to request a meeting on Friday, Oct 7, 1988 “to discuss whether we should evaluate the adequacy of the UL req. at this time.”
• In preparation for an October 7, 1988 meeting, an agenda signed by Al Biss of CPSC included “range-tip over: …to request discussion at Jan meeting with UL. Also, possible proposal for amending 1990 NEC code.”
• For a January 27, 1989 meeting of the NPI team, an agenda from Al Biss of CPSC also included “elec. range/oven tipovers. Proposed UL std. provides for increased test weigh of 250 lbs. applied gradually to oven door. Units not passing test would require fastening to wall or floor per MFR instructions.”
• An NPI Action Request form from Stan Morrow of CPSC dated October 19, 1989 reported: “Several years ago NPI reviewed this hazard (See 10-25-85 Memo from EPI). Many deaths involved elderly person falling on open oven door when they lost balance.” In the same form under action requested, Morrow stated “Simply put the UL test requires stoves (ovens) to meet a 250 lb weight test applied gradually to center of door without tipping, so as to knock off pan of water on top. In lieu of meeting test, manufacturer can provide that range be fastened to floor or wall. Labeling also required. (Previous weight was 75 lbs. and no labeling.) I believe this is significant improvement and we should wait to see results of new standard.” This form requested action by November 2, 1989.
• According to meetings notes, the Industry Advisory Conference (IAC) of UL for Electric Ranges held a meeting on May 24 and 25, 1990. Under an agenda item, titled ” Stability - Update,” the report states the following:
• “The requirements for range stability, which become effective June 3, 1991 as indicated in UL’s Subject 868 Important Letter dated August 16, 1989, were discussed. UL indicated that it had received reports that installers have experienced resistance from consumers when attempting to install anti-tip devices to some types of floors.
• “The representatives of industry suggested that a permanent marking with pictorial and text, visible during use of the appliance, indicating the potential risks associated with range tip-over be required to promote the use of anti-tip devices, and to increase consumer awareness of the risks and the importance of such devices.”
• Letter to CPSC from AHAM, dated June 28, 1990 regarding a national consumer education program to publicize the potential for range tipovers.
• Letter to CPSC from Representatives John Dingell (D-MI) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) dated March 5, 2007 regarding an investigation by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations into the problems with the stability of free-standing kitchen ranges as sold and installed in the United States.

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Source | KHOU

They are hard to watch: images of children maimed for life.

“He was screaming and crying,” Stephanie Moran said. “I was just like, ‘oh, my God! This isn’t happening!’”

Moran’s 18-month-old son pulled on an oven door, tipping over the range and a boiling pot.  

Later, insult would be added to injury. Moran learned manufacturers knew about the problem some 50 years ago.

It was aggravated in the 1980s when manufacturers started using lighter gauge steel for oven doors. It was cheaper.

Since then at least 33 people have been killed and 84 injured by tipping stoves.

By the early 90’s the manufacturers came up with this solution: anti-tip brackets.  Properly installed, they secure freestanding ranges to the wall.

But industry records showed only 5 percent to 10 percent of homes have the brackets. 

And the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates three deaths a year still happen because of range tip overs.

Texas attorney Dan Sciano has taken on nearly 100 tip over cases.

“The consequences of these are often catastrophic,” Sciano said. “I’ve had a young lady who lost her arm.”

The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers issued a statement saying warnings are posted on ovens and that is up to installers and consumers to be sure anti-tip brackets are used. But?

“Even the qualified installers are not using these,” Sciano said.

Why? Sciano said they and manufacturers are reluctant to put in brackets fearing liability if anything happens.

“I was initially shocked they wouldn’t address the problem,” he said. “I’m now convinced it’s become an acceptable risk.”   

He believes the best solution is for manufacturers to use safety doors, a more costly alternative.

The right solution for Moran and her son, now 12.

“Kids getting burned, kids getting scared for life, people getting scarred, and they choose not to fix it?” Moran said.

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Source | KING 5 News

An accident may be waiting to happen in your kitchen. A serious problem, identified years ago, still persists in millions of American households, and last year it led to a two-decade high in deaths and injuries.

Although it was several years ago, Stephanie Moran remembers it like yesterday - that fateful day her son walked to the kitchen stove.

“He opened the door, put his foot on it and the whole oven flipped over,” Moran said. “The pot flew off the oven.”

It’s hard to watch the video of 18-month old-James in treatment - scalded with second- and third-degree burns created by the flying pot of boiling water.

In the aftermath of what she thought was a freak accident, Moran learned that appliance manufacturers were well aware of a troubling problem.

“They knew about it and chose not to do anything,” Moran said. “I didn’t know about it and my son is scarred for the rest of his life.”

Tip-overs of freestanding stoves - when weight is placed on the oven door - have been a persistent problem for decades. It was first identified in a 1986 lawsuit on behalf of a Texas girl who lost a limb.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recorded 33 deaths from tipping stoves since 1980, and 84 injuries.

But two of those deaths - both children - and nine injuries were recorded just last year, which marked a 20-year high in stove-tipping casualties.

Bellevue attorney Herb Farber represented a severely scalded Seattle toddler in a 1999 lawsuit against a stove maker. He says manufacturers have been dragging their heels on a fix.

“It’s a horrific event and it does not have to happen,” he said.

Manufacturers say they have responded with warning labels.

In addition, anti-tipping brackets, which mount to the floor or wall, are packed with each new stove.

But KING 5 checked with Seattle home inspectors and appliance installers who say customers rarely are willing to pay the $50 fee to have them installed.

Ken Hungerford of Albert Lee Appliance told KING 5 he estimates about 5 percent of households have the devices.

Critics say manufacturers have ignored fixes that consumers may find more acceptable - like break-away doors.

Congress wants to know why tip-prone stoves are still a threat in up to 20 million American households.

In a few days the House Committee on Commerce and Energy will hold hearings with tough questions for the Consumer Products Safety Commission and manufacturers.

You can buy brackets to anchor down your stove at many hardware or appliance stores.

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Source | Washington Post

Consumer Groups Call for Prevention After Deaths, Injuries

Stephanie Moran was cooking chicken on the stove in her apartment while her two children, Jarod Moran, 2, and Jamie Hamblin, 1, played in the kitchen. The pot was out of their reach on the back burner when Jarod pulled down the oven door and stood on it.

The stove began to tip over. The pot of boiling water and chicken flew into the air, landing on Jamie and scalding the lower right side of his body.

“Immediately I grabbed him,” recalled Moran, 34, who lives near Dallas. “I could feel how hot his clothes were. He was burning.” That was 12 years ago, but Moran said her son still faces surgery to reduce prominent scars.

The accident is one of about 84 injuries and 33 deaths caused by tipping stoves from 1980 to 2006 and documented by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Consumer groups called on retailers and manufacturers yesterday to take steps to prevent such accidents.

“Our concern is that the public is totally uninformed about these dangers. We think that everyone who has bought these should be notified,” said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group. “This is a very serious source of potential harm in everyone’s home.”

All stoves have the potential to tip over. The problem can be prevented with an inexpensive, L-shaped bracket mounted on the back of the range. However, they have only been required by industry standards since 1991, and many older stoves may not have them. Consumer groups contend that even some newer ranges do not have them.

Joseph M. McGuire, president of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, said anti-tip devices are provided with all new stoves, along with a warning and installation instructions. Consumers can check for them by looking under the range or gently pulling the appliance to see whether it moves.

“The important thing to keep in mind is that when ranges are installed and used properly, they’re very safe,” McGuire said.

A spokesman for Sears, Roebuck, which sells about 800,000 stoves each year, more than any other retailer, declined to comment. Home Depot spokeswoman Jean Osta Niemi said the home-improvement company attaches anti-tip brackets free when customers request range installation. Buyers can choose between wall and floor mounts, she said. Lowe’s spokeswoman Jennifer Wilson said the company asks whether customers want brackets installed and mounts them free.

The issue has gained prominence recently. Awaiting class-action certification is a lawsuit filed in February in Illinois circuit court on behalf of Sears shoppers who said they bought ranges but did not have the anti-tip brackets installed. Last month, Reps. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) sent a letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman requesting information on tipping accidents over the past three decades.

The Consumer Federation of America and the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups joined Public Citizen yesterday in criticizing the CPSC for what they characterized as its lack of response to the hazard. Julie Vallese, director of information and public affairs for the CPSC, said the commission has been looking into the issue.

“We’re on a fact-finding mission,” she said. “We do have a responsibility to review different voluntary standards and whether or not they’re working. That is something that we’re doing.”

Reports about tipping stoves first began to surface in the early 1980s, after manufacturers switched from cast iron to lighter materials. In 1991, the nonprofit Underwriters Laboratories created nationally recognized voluntary standards for new ranges and required that they be fitted with anti-tip devices and include a warning in instruction manuals.

“Our requirements are very, very demanding,” said John Drengenberg, engineer and manager of consumer affairs for Underwriters Laboratories.

Vallese said the CPSC worked closely with Underwriters Laboratories to develop the standards. Since they were implemented, three injuries and one death have been reported involving a range built after 1991 in which a bracket was not installed.

Moran said she settled her case against Sears, manufacturer White Consolidated Industries and her apartment complex a year after the accident. She would not disclose the amount of the settlement. In another case, a Los Angeles woman received $20 million from Frigidaire Home Products and a local retailer after her range tipped over and scalded her son and two nephews with a simmering pot of stew. The children suffered third-degree burns over half their bodies.

Two deaths were recorded last year by the CPSC. One occurred in October in Elmira, N.Y., after an 18-month-old boy and his 3-year-old brother tried to reach cookies on top of a stove. The range tipped over, killing the baby. In December, an 18-month-old girl in Bradenton, Fla., died after a stove fell on her.

Of her son’s accident, Moran said: “I took every precaution I knew. I had never heard of a stove tipping over. I never imagined it.”

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