You know, here in Germany, we had Candy do this in a Consumer Reports test field. Consequence: A Europe wide action. Reducing spin speeds, redesigning, exchanging of parts.
And why? Consumer Reports lab conditions. They have standard loads, even loading is regulated. Thus, it was basicly taken as scientificly proofen to be a design flaw.
However, there are cases of pretty much any manufacturer haveing such fatal faults. I know that Indesit\Hotpoint had such failures, I know of a video where the "biggest" collector of washers from Germany had a case where an AEG had a fatal bearing failure during a spin, causing the machine to flip on its side.
And as we concluded here often enough: Most cases, it is directly relatable to consumers user errors. Waterproof items, plain wrong loading, using machines that had obviously not been set up correctly or used even though they were broken.
And on top, seeing that maybe 100-1000 cases are known of something like this happpening in the US, while several million washers are out there, it is not actually such a big deal.
Now, take into account how likely it is for a consumer to be in the same room as the washer is running, and on top this kind of damage only can happen during high speed spins, it will take a long time to anyhow affect a customer in its personal health.
