The News & Star has reported another Hoover washing machine exploding this morning saying that a mother-of-six had a lucky escape after their Hoover washing machine exploded in their Carlisle kitchen.
The paper says that single mum Rachael Coupland said her daughters were outside playing when they heard a loud bang coming from their house in Cumwhinton.
They went back to the house to find the kitchen filled with smoke and debris.
The family’s Hoover washing machine had exploded and burst apart, causing damage to the kitchen and smashing plates. Rachael was shopping when this happened last Wednesday.
One of Rachael’s daughters said: “I was halfway up the road when I heard the bang. It was really loud. We thought the cupboard had fallen off the wall, then we saw smoke coming out of the window. It absolutely stank.”
Rachael said: “We are very lucky nobody was in the kitchen at the time.
“At first I thought they were exaggerating and it had just blown a fuse or something, but the kitchen was full of smoke and there were pieces everywhere. The sides of the machine were bulging and the drum must have burst because there were clothes coming out the top. The explosion even broke the micro-wave.”
Rachael was shocked to hear it wasn’t a one-off accident. A national newspaper reported another family had a narrow escape after a Candy machine – owned by the same firm as Hoover – exploded.
A Hoover spokesman said: “A tiny fraction of washing machines produced before September 2009 have experienced a failure of the drum.
“The manufacturing issue was identified and resolved in September 2009.
“The likelihood of failure of any machines produced before this date is very, very low. We of course very much regret that this has happened to Mrs Coupland and have done our best to resolve the issue.”