13 :Samsung confirmed at the time that the fridge was their RS21NCNS:2017/06/15(木) 10:06:00.78 ID:V6alBqxX
And in February this year a father said he was lucky to be alive when his fridge exploded so hard the door was blown off its hinges and across the room.
Robert Antill, 54, from Bingley in West Yorkshire, was left with cuts and bruises after the appliance exploded - and claimed he onyl survived because he was kneeling down at the time.
Samsung confirmed at the time that the fridge was their RS21NCNS fridge freezer which was discontinued in 2009.
Mr Anthill said: 'If I'd been standing up when it exploded I'd be in the morgue now.'
In April, an inquest in Manchester heard that a fire caused by a faulty Beko fridge-freezer, which was the subject to a safety recall, led to the death of 63-year-old John Wilson.
And a 2014 inquest found that father Santosh Benjamin Muthiah died after rescuing two children from a fire caused by a Beko fridge-freezer in north London. It had been subject to a recall following fires as far back as 2003.
In 2009 the Daily Mail reporter a series of violent fridge explosions were believed to have been caused by leaks of coolant.