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Oven6 min read
GE vs Samsung ovens: an incident-report comparison
GE and Samsung ovens compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 960 GE filings against 661 Samsung ones. Samsung's reports concentrate on the control board at 13%; GE's spread across the heat path, and its igniter row is 3 points higher.
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Refrigerator7 min read
GE vs Samsung refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
GE and Samsung refrigerators set against their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 265 GE filings against 1,556 Samsung ones. Both records are led by the ice maker, at 46% and 24%, and both are the most single-component records in this set.
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Refrigerator8 min read
GE vs Whirlpool refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
GE and Whirlpool refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 265 GE filings against 170 Whirlpool ones. Whirlpool's record names three components with weight; GE's names one, and the rows where they match are the rows nobody names.
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Refrigerator7 min read
Kenmore vs KitchenAid refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
Kenmore and KitchenAid refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports — 373 Kenmore filings, 2011-2025, against 46 KitchenAid ones, 2011-2026. Seven of the eight compared rows lean the same way, and the eighth, the control board, lands on 7% in both.
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Refrigerator6 min read
Kenmore vs LG refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
Kenmore and LG refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports — 373 Kenmore filings, 2011-2025, against 192 LG ones, 2011-2026. Four of the eight compared rows show no difference at all, and the two records trade the other four between them.
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Refrigerator6 min read
Kenmore vs Maytag refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
Kenmore and Maytag refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports — 373 Kenmore filings, 2011-2025, against 76 Maytag ones, 2011-2026. Both records rank the compressor first and the ice maker second; the Maytag one simply puts far more of itself into those two rows.
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Refrigerator8 min read
Kenmore vs Samsung refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
Kenmore and Samsung refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports — 373 Kenmore filings, 2011-2025, against 1,556 Samsung ones, 2011-2026. The ice maker gap is 37 points, the widest here, and it is one of the few wide gaps measured well on both sides.
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Refrigerator7 min read
Kenmore vs Whirlpool refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
Kenmore and Whirlpool refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports — 373 Kenmore filings, 2011-2025, against 170 Whirlpool ones, 2011-2026. Three gaps run Whirlpool's way and one runs Kenmore's, which is what stops the page collapsing into a single explanation.
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Oven5 min read
KitchenAid vs LG ovens: an incident-report comparison
KitchenAid and LG ovens compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 405 KitchenAid filings against 719 LG ones. Two of the five compared rows match exactly at 2%, and the only real separation is at the top of each column.
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Refrigerator6 min read
KitchenAid vs LG refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
KitchenAid and LG refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 46 KitchenAid filings against 192 LG ones. The two records rank their components differently while agreeing on the ice maker and landing on 7% for the control board in both.
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Refrigerator6 min read
KitchenAid vs Maytag refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
KitchenAid and Maytag refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 46 KitchenAid filings against 76 Maytag ones. Both records put the compressor first, within 3 points of each other, and neither is large enough to settle anything below that.
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Oven6 min read
KitchenAid vs Samsung ovens: an incident-report comparison
KitchenAid and Samsung ovens compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 405 KitchenAid filings against 661 Samsung ones. Both records concentrate on the control board more than any other oven pairing here, at 8% and 13%, and agree on almost everything else.
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Refrigerator7 min read
KitchenAid vs Samsung refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
KitchenAid and Samsung refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 46 KitchenAid filings against 1,556 Samsung ones. The two widest gaps on the page point in opposite directions, and one column carries thirty-four times the evidence of the other.
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Oven6 min read
KitchenAid vs Whirlpool ovens: an incident-report comparison
KitchenAid and Whirlpool ovens compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 405 KitchenAid filings against 635 Whirlpool ones. One record is a spike on the control board; the other is an even descent through the heat path.
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Refrigerator7 min read
KitchenAid vs Whirlpool refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
KitchenAid and Whirlpool refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 46 KitchenAid filings against 170 Whirlpool ones. The same two components lead both records in opposite order, and that swap is most of what separates them.
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Refrigerator6 min read
LG vs Maytag refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
LG and Maytag refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 192 LG filings against 76 Maytag ones. Maytag's second-place row is larger than LG's first, and the control board and the water valve are what LG has instead.
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Oven6 min read
LG vs Samsung ovens: an incident-report comparison
LG and Samsung ovens compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 719 LG filings against 661 Samsung ones. Two records of nearly the same size, with one substantial difference between them and nothing else above a single point.
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Oven6 min read
LG vs Whirlpool ovens: an incident-report comparison
LG and Whirlpool ovens compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 719 LG filings against 635 Whirlpool ones. Whirlpool's record leans towards the heat path, LG's towards the sensor, and the widest gap between them is 3 points.
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Refrigerator7 min read
LG vs Whirlpool refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
LG and Whirlpool refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 192 LG filings against 170 Whirlpool ones. Two records of almost the same size that disagree more than any other evenly matched pair here.
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Refrigerator7 min read
Maytag vs Samsung refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
Maytag and Samsung refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 76 Maytag filings against 1,556 Samsung ones. The ice maker is a top-two row in both records; the compressor is what puts them in different orders.
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Refrigerator6 min read
Maytag vs Whirlpool refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
Maytag and Whirlpool refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 76 Maytag filings against 170 Whirlpool ones. The same two components dominate both records; only their order and the size of the wiring row separate them.
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Oven6 min read
Samsung vs Whirlpool ovens: an incident-report comparison
Samsung and Whirlpool ovens compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 661 Samsung filings against 635 Whirlpool ones. Two records of almost identical size, one 7-point difference at the top, and exact agreement on two rows.
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Refrigerator8 min read
Samsung vs Whirlpool refrigerators: an incident-report comparison
Samsung and Whirlpool refrigerators compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, 2011-2026 — 1,556 Samsung filings against 170 Whirlpool ones. Both records are led by the ice maker, at 46% and 34%, and the compressor is what separates them.
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Washer6 min read
Electrolux vs Frigidaire washers: an incident-report comparison
Electrolux and Frigidaire washers compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports — 39 Electrolux filings from 2014-2026 against 46 Frigidaire ones from 2011-2023. The Electrolux set is top-heavy (control board 21%, wiring 18%); the Frigidaire set is flat, with nothing above 9%.
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Washer6 min read
Electrolux vs GE washers: an incident-report comparison
Electrolux and GE washers compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports: 39 Electrolux filings from 2014-2026 against 181 GE ones from 2011-2026. The control board leads both corpora, and the motor is the one component GE's reports name more often — 7% against 3%.
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Washer6 min read
Electrolux vs Kenmore washers: an incident-report comparison
Electrolux and Kenmore washers compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports: 39 Electrolux filings from 2014-2026 against 208 Kenmore ones from 2011-2026. Both corpora are led by the control board, and the widest gaps rest on near-identical report counts read against very different denominators.
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Washer6 min read
Electrolux vs LG washers: an incident-report comparison
Electrolux and LG washers compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports: 39 Electrolux filings from 2014-2026 against 295 LG ones from 2011-2026. LG's reports spread across eleven components with nothing above 5%; Electrolux's concentrate in three.
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Washer5 min read
Electrolux vs Maytag washers: an incident-report comparison
Electrolux and Maytag washers compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports: 39 Electrolux filings from 2014-2026 against 104 Maytag ones from 2011-2026. The control board is named in 8 reports on each side — identical counts printing as 21% and 8%.
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Washer5 min read
Electrolux vs Samsung washers: an incident-report comparison
Electrolux and Samsung washers compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports: 39 Electrolux filings from 2014-2026 against 540 Samsung ones from 2011-2026. Samsung is the one washer corpus not led by the control board — the drain pump or hose tops it at 4%, on 22 reports.
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Washer6 min read
Electrolux vs Whirlpool washers: an incident-report comparison
Electrolux and Whirlpool washers compared on their CPSC SaferProducts incident reports: 39 Electrolux filings from 2014-2026 against 115 Whirlpool ones from 2011-2026. The two lists run in the same order — control board, then wiring — and no component separates them by more than 10 points.
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