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They do and will randomly kill people
by ljlolel 10mo ago
They do and will randomly kill people
- emp17344 10mo agoDawg what kind of washing machines are you using?
- michaelmrose 10mo agoSamsung?
- ssl-3 10mo agoIn 1825? Certainly not one that ran on electricity, much less something that had meaningful safety features. I used to play with a Maytag machine machine motor. It had a single cylinder, ran on gasoline, and had a kick-start. It was from, IIRC, 1926. The exhaust would have been plumbed to the outdoors, but other than that the expectation was that there would be a gas-fired engine running in the house while the washing was done.
- interloxia 10mo agoMostly from dryers. I assumed mostly from failure to clean the lint but the following link suggested that that was the cause only 27% of the time. https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-research/fire-statistical-reports/home-fires-involving-clothes-dryers-and-washing-machines https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-re... In the table from the Pdf link failure to clean was the only category that resulted in deaths.