The dryer is trying to kill me!

Moving a load of laundry this morning, I noticed a warning label inside the door of our clothes dryer. It says:

No washer can completely remove oil. Do not dry anything that has ever come into contact with oil (including cooking oils).
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Failure to follow these instructions could result in death or fire.

I can see how, in theory, disobeying these rules could result in fire. What I fail to understand is how it could result in death -- exclusive of fire. The "or" suggests that either possibility, death or fire, could happen independently of the other.

Now I'm terrified that next time I go open the dryer, there's going to be a shotgun inside there, aimed squarely at me.