"Every day, millions of NutriBullet customers worldwide blend nutritious smoothies from fruits, vegetables and nuts in their NutriBullets. Specifically, Treyzon says the blender should have an on/off switch, a timer and a pressure release valve.īut NutriBullet is pushing back, telling FOX 11 in a statement: "It has been our position that NutriBullet should have changed the design of the devices and that has not happened since the cases started," Treyzon said. "Those tests showed without any doubt that these machines explode," Rochen said. In another, artificial pressure is added to a NutriBullet blending water, and it explodes after two minutes at an approximate pressure of 50 PSI. In one video, water is blended in a NutriBullet for ten minutes and nineteen seconds before it explodes. "Even though they've changed some of the written material, maybe they've changed some of the warnings, from what we can tell, the product itself hasn't changed structurally, there's no mechanical parts that have been altered that make this a safer product."įOX 11 previously obtained 2017 test videos from NutriBullet's manufacturer in China after the company started facing legal action. "So now it has this quick user guide which has a bunch more warnings that did not exist in prior models," Rochen said. Rochen showed FOX 11 the firm’s evidence locker of NutriBullets and showed us a newer model of the blender since our last reports. "It was just a protein shake, and then I smelled like rubber or plastic burning so I thought it was the motor, so I took it off, and then when I tried to open it to take the protein shake out of the cup it didn't want to open, I thought it was strange but I didn't know, and then when I opened it, it was the explosion," Morales said.Īttorneys Dough Rochen and Boris Treyzon of the law firm Abir, Cohen, Treyzon, Salo, (ACTS), say they now represent nearly 100 alleged victims of the NutriBullet, all with graphic, painful injuries, and they've filed dozens of new lawsuits against NutriBullet since our last report in 2018. Waldermar Morales is also a new plaintiff, he just filed a lawsuit against NutriBullet this month after he claims he suffered second-degree burns to his face when his NutriBullet, a Christmas gift from his mom, exploded during use in May after 45 seconds of use. "I was panicking, I'm an emergency care nurse so I deal with a lot of trauma but it's so different when it’s your own baby," explained Hall. Hall said the scalding contents spewed everywhere, leaving her daughter Danya with burns to her body, including her face and eyes, while Hall suffered second-degree burns to her arm. "The cup part of the container went all the way to the ceiling, cracked my ceiling." "It wasn't releasing like it normally did and that's why I was like I don’t know why it's not stopping, so that's why I pulled the plug and then it exploded all at the same time," said Hall. "That morning, we made a shake, I put almost milk in it with my vegan protein powder, some raspberries, blueberries, flax seeds, that's it," Hall said.īut Hall says after roughly 30-45 seconds of use, the NutriBullet malfunctioned and wouldn’t turn off. She is a Sun Valley trauma nurse currently in Texas helping local hospitals with COVID-19 patients, but she sued NutriBullet this past March after she says her blender exploded during use, causing severe burns to her and her 9-year-old daughter, Danya. Hall is a new plaintiff suing NutriBullet since our stories aired. "My daughter's face almost got blown up, I still have scars from my burns," said Crissundra Hall. However, several new alleged victims are coming forward, saying they followed all the guidelines, and still got hurt. And, get breaking news alerts in the FOX 11 News app. Get your top stories delivered daily! Sign up for FOX 11’s Fast 5 newsletter. They've also argued that their products have clear warnings throughout their instruction manuals, which state that customers shouldn't blend hot liquids, shouldn't leave the device unattended, and should never exceed the maximum one minute blending time.
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