Re: Burns from a sunbeam heating pad

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On 3/23/13, cindia cannon wrote:
> On 10/04/11, Kristen Fulbright wrote:
>>
>> 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!"