Not seen this one - sorry!

This thread about imported blower fans reminds me of an incident some 20 years ago at a leisure centre operated by my then employer. The centre had recently bought a portable blower unit, imported to the UK and sold by a UK supplier, for inflating floating devices used in its swimming pool. As the flex for the unit came fitted with a moulded continental style plug, it was refitted at the centre with a UK style plug. When an employee switched the unit on for the first time, it made a loud noise and then its rotating impeller and casing exploded to scatter shards of plastic in various directions. Though the employee and anyone else in the vicinity could easily have been blinded and/or otherwise seriously injured by the flying shards, the employee was somehow very lucky and suffered no more than minor lacerations and a fright. Investigation soon revealed why the impeller exploded. The unit supplied was a 110 volt model but had been refitted with a 240 volt plug! As a result, when the unit was switched on, the 240 volt power caused the 110 volt motor to rotate at a speed grossly above the maximum design speed for the impeller. (I think an engineer said afterwards that the doubling of the voltage caused a fourfold or greater increase in rotation speed.) I think investigation revealed that though the supplier's brochure described the unit as 110 volt, it was supplied in its original box and probably with instructions printed only in the language of wherever it was made. Though one or more employees at the centre committed an error by replacing the 110 volt plug with a 240 volt one, part of the error stemmed from the unit being supplied without adequate information in English. Therefore, prompt contact was made with the suppliers who were urged to contact other recent UK purchasers of the unit and to provide better information, especially clear advice about changing plugs for UK use. If other makes and models of blowers were available as 240 volt versions, this may also have been a key factor. Alas, with no access now to contemporary records, I can't be sure as to whether or not HSE became involved, especially with the supply company and its obligations under Section 6 of the HSW Act 1974. For some years after the incident my colleagues and I kept the defunct blower unit plus a transparent bagful of the shards in our collection of artefacts for display/discussion during training sessions and other relevant events. They proved to be useful as an item for discussion but probably had to be discarded due to lack of storage space following an office move. Even though the above circumstances don't relate directly to the main topic of this thread, I hope they're of some use to forum users as regards the need for care about 110 volt appliances, changing plugs and provision of clear and comprehensible instructions, etc.