A 7-year-old girl was drying her hair with a small portable electric hair dryer. The dryer was dangerously designed because it contained no thermostatic controls.
As a result its surface could reach a temperature over 520 degrees; F. The girl’s bedding and clothing was ignited by the heat of the hair dryer and she suffered severe burns on her chest.[13]
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