NutriBullet Lawsuit: Injuries, $10M Settlement, and Recall Status

The NutriBullet lawsuits are personal injury and product liability claims alleging that the brand’s personal blenders can overheat, pressurize, and rupture during ordinary use, throwing scalding contents and plastic fragments at the user. More than 140 injury suits have been filed since 2014, and a separate class action produced a proposed $10 million settlement covering certain 600-watt and 900-watt models sold between June 2017 and March 2022.¹ NutriBullet denies the blenders are defective when used as directed.

What Plaintiffs Say Goes Wrong

The core allegation is mechanical. The blender’s high-speed motor generates frictional heat during normal operation, and because the sealed plastic cup has no pressure-relief valve, no thermal cutoff, and no warning indicator, pressure and temperature can climb until the cup separates from the blade base while the motor is still running. Contents and plastic then eject outward.² Even when the cup holds during blending, plaintiffs say the pressure can send the lid flying when the user tries to open the unit afterward.³

The legal theories run along familiar product liability lines: design defect, failure to warn, negligence, strict liability, and breach of implied warranty. Plaintiffs argue safer alternatives existed at low cost, including a built-in pressure-relief valve and a visible heat indicator.² One complaint alleges the company knew of the risk as early as 2011, when a consumer reported an explosion involving a Magic Bullet blender to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.⁴

What NutriBullet Says

NutriBullet’s position is that it is “physically impossible” for the blender to build enough heat to explode within one minute of correct use.⁵ The company attributes reported injuries to misuse: running the motor past the recommended 60 seconds, or blending hot or carbonated ingredients.⁶

Internal test footage complicated that defense. During discovery in Laura Lambros’s case, NutriBullet’s attorneys produced videos filmed in 2017 by the company’s Chinese manufacturers. Fox 11 Los Angeles aired the footage in 2018 over the company’s objection.⁵ In one test, a blender containing only water ruptured at about 50 PSI after roughly two minutes with pressure artificially added. In another, an unaltered unit ran for ten minutes and nineteen seconds before bursting on its own.⁷ NutriBullet noted that the plaintiffs’ own experts had testified separation of the cup and blade assemblies could occur only after 10 to 20 minutes of continuous use.

Reported Injuries and Models Named

Injuries described in the lawsuits are often severe:

Second-degree burns to the arms, chest, and face from scalding liquid.⁸
Lacerations and severed arteries from the exposed blade or jagged plastic. One plaintiff alleged a severed artery in his dominant hand.⁹
Permanent nerve damage, including loss of feeling in fingers.
Eye injuries, including at least one report of a severely damaged eyeball paired with facial burns.¹⁰

The models most frequently named are the NutriBullet 600 Series, the NutriBullet Pro 900 Series, and the NutriBullet RX.¹⁰

The $10 Million Class Action Settlement

A class action filed in November 2017 against Homeland Housewares, NutriBullet, and Capital Brands produced a proposed $10 million settlement. The class covered anyone in the United States who bought a new or reconditioned 600-watt or 900-watt NutriBullet blender for non-commercial use between June 1, 2017, and March 15, 2022.¹¹

NutriBullet admitted no wrongdoing. It agreed to add packaging disclosures warning against running the blender continuously for more than one minute or blending hot or warm ingredients.¹² Class members could choose a cash refund of $5 for a 600-watt model or $7 for a 900-watt model, or a discount code of $10 or $15 toward a replacement. Claims were limited to one per household and required proof of purchase or a serial number.¹¹

One boundary matters here: the settlement expressly excluded anyone who suffered a physical injury.¹² Injured users kept the right to sue individually. A final approval hearing was set in an Illinois court for June 30, 2022; publicly available reporting does not confirm whether the court granted final approval.¹¹

Notable Individual Cases

Laura Lambros’s suit is the one that made the litigation national news. She alleged that in May 2014, while blending lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, and cayenne pepper, the cup popped off its base and her pinky and ring fingers were caught in the blades, leaving her with broken bones and severe lacerations.¹³ The internal test videos surfaced through discovery in her case.

Deveta White filed a 64-page class action complaint in July 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging the canister could pressurize until it separated from the base and that the blade assembly could become a projectile.¹⁴ She voluntarily dismissed the suit with prejudice in January 2019.¹⁵

Marie Jenkins filed a separate class action in the same court in 2018. She alleged that after taking the blender off its motor base and trying to unscrew the blade assembly, pressure launched the cup toward the ceiling and burned her with the erupting contents.⁴

The most recent high-profile case is Joseph Sanchez’s. Sanchez, a 46-year-old hairdresser from Inwood in New York City, sued in Manhattan Supreme Court on July 24, 2025. He alleged that in July 2022, his blender’s plastic cup ruptured while he was blending celery, milk, and protein powder, and that jagged plastic severed an artery in his dominant right hand. He fashioned a tourniquet from a necktie. His complaint says NutriBullet has known about the over-pressurization risk for more than a decade and has neither recalled nor redesigned the product. He continues to report numbness, severe pain, and lasting trauma.⁹

Not every plaintiff prevails. A New Jersey personal injury case was dismissed after the court found the plaintiff had not presented enough expert evidence to establish either a defect or that the alleged defect caused the injury.¹ NutriBullet has pointed to that dismissal in support of its safety position.

Claims in the United Kingdom

NutriBullet injury claims are not limited to the United States. The Welsh firm Hugh James has pursued cases under the UK’s Consumer Protection Act 1987, arguing the blender’s safety falls short of what consumers are entitled to expect. One client sustained severe hand lacerations, finger fractures, and tendon and nerve damage after her NutriBullet’s container separated from the base, requiring two operations and leaving her with permanently reduced grip strength. Other UK claimants have reported permanent nerve damage, scarring, skin grafts, and reconstructive surgery.⁶

Recall Status and Ownership

Despite the volume of litigation, there has been no company-wide recall and no major redesign announced.¹ The corporate structure has changed, however. NutriBullet and MagicBullet blenders have been on the market since roughly 2004, originally sold by Homeland Housewares, a California LLC operating under parent Capital Brands.⁴ In November 2020, Italian appliance maker De’Longhi Group announced an agreement to acquire Capital Brands Holdings for approximately $420 million, with closing expected before the end of 2020 pending antitrust clearance.¹⁶ Available records do not indicate how the ownership change affected pending product liability cases.

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