Remington Class Action Says Hot Rollers Cause Serious Burns

A class action lawsuit claims that Remington Hot Rollers get too hot, which creates a serious risk of burn injuries. 

Plaintiffs Bruce Winkworth and Marcia Botelho say they each purchased the Hot Rollers for personal use, and were injured by it. They claim that the rollers are defective, and dangerous to use.

Botelho says that in May 2018, while she was curling her hair, the Cool Touch End of the hot roller detached and went down her shirt, causing a painful burn.

She allegedly contacted customer service about the burn, but was dismissed. She says that the customer service responded with a message that said “Usually what we find when rollers lose their caps is that they have been overheated. The heating time for this setter is 3 minutes.” 

However, the plaintiffs argues that this statement is false, because the heating instructions listed on the Use & Care Guide for the rollers says that the heating time is 10 minutes.

Allegedly, Spectrum Brands Inc., the makers of the Remington Hot Rollers, has been aware of the defect for years. To support this claim, the Remington class action lawsuit cites numerous complaints about the fact that the rollers get too hot to safely use.

The Remington class action lawsuit says that the Hot Rollers consist of “exclusive thermal wax core rollers” that heat up to curl hair. The rollers allegedly have what are branded as “cool touch ends,” but reportedly the rollers heat up so much that they are unsafe to touch.

Botelho and Winkworth say that the rollers get so hot that the plastic end caps fall or melt off because of the excessive heat. Allegedly, this exposed customers to dangerous contact with the hot plastic ends and the metal underneath the plastic end cap.

The Remington class action lawsuit goes on to note that the American Society of Testing Materials published a Standard Guide for Heated System Surface Conditions that Produce Contact Burn Injuries.

Allegedly, the metallic portion of the rollers heats to over 158 degrees fahrenheit in 10 minutes, and the ASTM standard states that “if the surface temperature exceeds 70 degrees celsius (158 degrees fahrenheit) and the surface is metallic, it may present a hazard regardless of the contact duration.”

The customers say that they would not have purchased the rollers, or would not have paid as much for them as they did, if they had known that they would be defective and cause injury. As a result, the purchase of the products allegedly caused financial, as well as physical injury.

Winkworth and Botelho are represented by Troy M. Frederick and Beth Frederick of Frederick Law Group PLLC, and by Patrick Howard and Charles Kocher of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky PC.

The Remington Hot Rollers Class Action Lawsuit is Bruce Winkworth, et al. v. Spectrum Brands Inc., Case No. 2:19-cv-01011, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

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