Re: Burns from a sunbeam heating pad

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10/4/2011
My husband uses his heating pad every night on his low back.
Last night he set it on low for 2 hours and woke up this
morning to a very large burn mark on his back and red marks
all down his buttocks. He had to miss work today he was in so
much pain. Has anyone decided to go further with a class
action lawsuit?

On 6/10/11, Timi Headley wrote:
> On 10/06/10, Patrick thompson wrote:
>> Last night my wife received 2nd degree burns from a sunbeam
>> heating pad. I believe the automatic sut off didn't work.
>> The area burned was about 1" by 3" long. The skin was
>> peeling off the area burned when she woke up this morning.
>> Is there a product liability issue here.
>
>
> I need an answer to the same question. I'll explain! I went
to
> Walmart and bought a Sunbeam heating pad about a year or so
> ago. On L, which is the lowest setting, on the 2 hour shut
> off, it left a 1st degree burn on my back which I treated by
> myself.
> I also took that heating pad back and chose a new Sunbeam
and
> bought first aid supplies to treat the first burn!
>
> I set the 2nd heating pad on L with the two hour setting! I
> was burnt again on my back!!! I took THAT ONE back to
> Walmart!! The manager treated me terribly thinking I was
> faking it.
>
> So I got a refund because I had the receipt and I purchased
> more first aid supplies and bought a NEW heating pad from
> Walgreens but had to choose a Sunbeam again because that's
all
> THEY carried. When I returned home I called the manufacturer
> (Sunbeam)! All I asked for is that they refund my money for
> the new heating pad and first aid supplies for my back from
> the 2nd burn! All they said was that they were sorry for my
> injury. Take pictures of it and send copies of receipts with
> the pictures to them and they WOULD refund my money for them
> and the pad!!! I did those things and they DID refund all
the
> costs!
>
> Now common sense told me that if a company that large would
do
> all that for me then they obviously new that it was
happening!
> And I know that if this is the third heating pad that had
> burnt me this badly from Sunbeam that I can't be the only
> person being burnt by them!!!
>
> So, I was now on my 3rd Sunbeam heating pad and thinking
that
> I'd just been unlucky! I set it to L on the 2hour timer, yet
> again! I now have at least a 2nd degree burn on my hand. I
> woke yesterday to the heating pad still on!!! Which was
> dangerous in and of itself. But I have a HUGE 1 1/2 inch
> across circle burn blister which broke and beneath it are
even
> more deep burns with the meat of my hand being totally
COOKED
> even below the 2nd layer of blisters (beneath the first
> blister of the burn, I hope I've explained the injury
> clearly). I will absolutely have a huge scar on my hand if I
> can even get it to heal before it becomes infected! Right I
> am in so much pain and the pain has me so nauseous that I'm
> having to take phenergan to settle my stomach.
>
> I want to know WHAT THE HECK is going on with these Sunbeam
> heating pads. I had growing pains in my legs pretty badly
when
> I was a kid. I had a Sunbeam Heating Pad which my mother
> bought for me to treat the pain. She would wrap it around
> which ever leg had the active pain at the time and leave it
on
> it's lowest setting ALL NIGHT LONG and I wouldn't get burns
> from it!! What the heck is going on???!!! I know that last
> question is repetitive.
>
> I DID call a local attorney and she told me to Search the
> Internet under everything I can think of in relation to this
> happening! And she's given me two referrals to two HUGE
local
> law firms who are very successful with class actions suits
> against large companies such as Sunbeam!
>
> For me, it's not a matter of wanting to sue people. I am NOT
a
> sue happy person! But how many time and how many people need
> to be burned by these before we stand together and
say, "This
> is ENOUGH!!! Stop making these things until you can make
them
> work properly and stop injuring people!"