Cabrio clothes dryers
1 report to CPSC, the latest made Apr 9, 2014. A report isn’t a recall.
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At a glance
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- 1report to CPSC
- Apr 9, 2014the latest report was made
- Apr 9, 2014the earliest
- 0with the company’s comments
- Brand
- Cabrio
- Maker
- WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- Clothes dryersGas or electric not saidCPSC’s product type: Clothes Dryers, Not Specified (code 127), in Home Maintenance and Structures: Laundry, Fabric Care & Sewing
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
|---|---|
| April 2014 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury
As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.
The reports, as CPSC published them
Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.
Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.
CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.
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No one hurt Made Apr 9, 2014, sent to the company Apr 17, 2014, published by CPSC May 1, 2014
The product, in the report: Clothes Dryer
Event: lint inside my dryer caught fire while the dryer was operating. Reason:Traditional dryers have the heating unit up high and vertical in the back of the unit. That design allows air pulled in to be heated to be relatively free from lint since it is up high. Also,the vertical design does not allow lint to collect on or above the heating unit. 1) My dryer’s design has the heater underneath the unit with the air pulling through the underside of the unit. This is very unsafe as lint naturally collects at the ground level. Also,there are intake vents in the back that,if lint were to be pulled in, would again collect in the bottom of the unit and near the intake to the heaters. 2) The dryer has a horizontal heater covered by a metals haft. Lint can easily collect on top of this, and when heated,catch fire. The metal shaft also has openings on the side which could allow lint to pull in and be in direct contact with the heating coils. As lint collects in the bottom due to gravity, a ‘vacuum’ effect occurs when the unit is operated, sucking air and lint into the open horizontal shaft in the bottom of the unit directly across the heating element coils. This happened on our unit within only a year or two of use. The dryer was turned on and immediately smoke and burning smell was detected. Upon inspection it was found that lint collected inside the bottom of the dryer caught fire.
- Model
- WED7300XW0
- Serial number
- M0241933
- Bought from
- Appliance Mart, Tennessee
- Bought
- Mar 1, 2011, about then
- Where
- Cookeville, Tennessee: Home/
Apartment/ Condominium - Who was involved
- Age 48, Male
- The reporter’s relation to them
- Self
- As this report names them
- Brand Cabrio, made or sold by WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Incident, No Injury
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