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One More Bullet Left! Amen! This one killed the poor guy, and the electrical contractor was sent to jail for murder because of this lost pin!!
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what do i say? "Don't shoot me , i'm just the EC" ?? I found 3-P male cord caps at Barnett here for about $1.25...get them by the dz and have corrected much of the abuse shown. I'm not sure, per OSHA, if i can repair cords, but i do it anyways....
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I wondered where I left my 4way!
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Joe, Can you document the fact that a contractor was convicted of murder for a missing ground pin? I'd like to use that information when I teach grounding classes. I haven't heard of that one. I have heard of one in, New York, I think, about 10 years ago where an electrician went to jail for manslaughter, when an improper grounding connection on a baseboard heat unit resulted in a death of a child. Don
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Don,
If I remember correctly, the electrician was convicted of negligent homicide and got a five year sentence. It was in Connecticut.
It involved a 120V baseboard heater being connected to 240V without an EGC connection. A child's death resulted from the blaze.
[This message has been edited by sparky66wv (edited 12-29-2002).]
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The irony is, all of this guy's battery chargers, radios, and power tool were double-insulated, with two-prong plugs; he only cut off the ground pins because OSHA told him he needed to have three-wire cords!
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[This message has been edited by Joe Tedesco (edited 12-27-2004).]
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