Posted on 07/11/2017 8:47:48 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
Yep, a $5 GFCI outlet and YouTube (if required) could have prevented this.
Water and electricity? They never mix, sorry the child learned the hard way.
“She looks to have been a really nice little girl.”
With her hair in curls.
I suspect this is the case.
It could easily have been the charger alone. 200 milliamps (0.2 amps) in the tub (basically throughout the body and across the heart) will kill. Older homes may not have GFCI in the bathrooms.
It only takes 0.1 amps to be fatal.
Apple is worth 3/4 or a trillion dollars.
The company that made the extension cord that was bought at the dollar store may not be worth 3/4 of a trillion dollars.
“Water and electricity? They never mix, sorry the child learned the hard way.”
Her teachers said that she was much more grounded in the arts than the sciences.
You can be well-educated and quite intelligent and do idiotic things in a heartbeat. One heartbeat-stopping heartbeat.
Poor girl. Poor family. ( hope nobody snarks about this.
Anybody who has erred with an automobile ignition system learned that first hand. Nothing like 40,000 volts at 80 - 120 mA to wake you up! But, fortunately, it’s not the same as having a seat on Ole Sparky.
Grounded indeed!
I always like to make toast while in the bath myself!
you’re going to get push back on that.
Survival of the fittest.
So where was the teaching when she was a little kid to never put electrical stuff in the sink, tub??
A properly working cell phone charger will not harm anyone. There is a possibility of an electrical fault, which is why many appliance cases are grounded.
Older outlets are not GFI protected.
All she needs to do is contact a faulted appliance while in the shower or bath (the metal plumbing and soapy water providing a path to ground) or otherwise come into contact with the hot power lead, and she’s a goner. Throwing an appliance into the bathtub with an intended victim is unlikely to harm them, the fuse or breaker will trip, and current will not find the path of least resistance through a human body. Reaching over in the bathtub and touching a faulted appliance will, most likely.
Lol
480 v 3 phase would prolly do it
One can save lots of time in the morning by having that toaster, microwave oven, and blow dryer with you in the bathtub.
Perhaps, that small amount could work if directly applied to the heart but in this case it wasn’t and the water in the tub would deflect the current. Most likely she was hit with 20+ amps at 110v.
I saw Goldfinger, so I’m an expert.
yup
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