h2c is right.

People generally didn't tell me about run-of-the-mill bugs and problems after I finished a project: the lab techs could take care of those later in development and there were several groups of engineers who fixed problems after I threw a project over the wall at manufacturing. I was rarely bothered about those things.

But I'm sure I heard about it every time there was an explosion, as well as every fire not in the power supply. Every single one was a big deal, even if the product was past end-of-life.

It's not so much the odds as the expectation. Ford engineers don't hear about every crash because they're cars and everyone knows they crash. But nobody expects a desktop computer to *explode* and bury metal shrapnel in the walls and ceiling, and even once is going to get attention.