This is the last thing you want to happen when operating a pressure washer.
Several Ryobi pressure washers have been recalled after the machines reportedly exploded while being used.
Ryobi has reported 41 incidents of customers’ pressure washers exploding, which have injured 32 people.
Fox News reported more on the recall:
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About 780,000 pressure washers sold at major home improvement retailers nationwide are being recalled after users reported dozens of explosions, according to regulators.
TTI Outdoor Power Equipment’s Ryobi Electric Pressure Washer’s capacitor can overheat and eventually burst, “causing parts to be forcefully ejected, posing a risk of serious injury from impact to the user or bystanders,” according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
About 764,000 were sold in the U.S. and
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