Our inspection found a small cut in the cord near the switch that could have exposed the user to bare wire.The inspection also revealed customer misuse as our inspection found: poly cover dirty or stained, cord twisted, fda: cord cut/burned strain relief, switch ok, pad bunched, bent/broken lead, bent/broken thermostat, thermostat discoloration.This tells us that the pad was not being properly used as over bent near per our instructions in the manual.Cord breakage usually occurs when the cord is repeatedly over bent near the switch.We have initiated a capa project (b)(4) to reduce the occurrence of this issue.A new jacketed cord design was launched in production on (b)(4) 2014 that closes (b)(4) pending a future eval of the effectiveness of the solution.
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