To be fair to the operators, they may not have reason to believe that their machines are overloaded or unbalanced. I've washed a lot of clothes in my life. It's

To be fair to the operators, they may not have reason to believe that their machines are overloaded or unbalanced. I've washed a lot of clothes in my life. It's been my experience that even properly loaded machines will occasionally shift the load in such a way as to become severely unbalanced. I don't think it's such a cut and dried case of operator negligence. The machines themselves provide little to no feedback to the operator. Older machines had clutches installed which would prevent the machine from spinning the drum hard enough to vibrate the machine apart. If Samsung et. al. have removed this hardware safeguard from their machine, they better have a damn good story to justify why they don't need it.