snoop1130 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 A 42-year-old man was electrocuted to death after accidentally stepping on a live power outlet on a wet floor and breaking it. Today, May 13th, Pol. Capt. Kunthawat Ruamjit from the Chonburi Police Station responded to a fatal accident in the Ban Suan sub-district, Mueang District, Chonburi. Keep up to date with all things Thailand - Join our daily ASEAN NOW Thailand Newsletter - Click to subscribe According to Captain Kunthawat, the police found the body of Yuttana Wanthayat, 42, facing upside down on a wet floor with a fractured power outlet at his feet. The police then unplugged it, assuming the victim had stepped on it by mistake and been electrocuted to death. Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/05/13/42-year-old-man-electrocuted-to-death-after-accidentally-stepping-on-live-power-outlet-in-chonburi/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-05-13 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woof999 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Electrocuted to death? If he wasn't electrocuted, he wouldn't be dead. Anyway, sad loss of life that happens here so frequently. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post worgeordie Posted May 13, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 13, 2022 All the workers that have done jobs for me have been far too relaxed when it comes to electricity, instead of having a plug on the power tools two pieces of wood holding it into the extension, plastic bags for insulation when its raining. regards worgeordie 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted May 13, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 13, 2022 9 hours ago, worgeordie said: All the workers that have done jobs for me have been far too relaxed when it comes to electricity, Wait and see how relaxed they are after a cannabis lunch 2 2 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 I must admit people here do seem to be careless about where they step....although this looks like too large an item to be overlooked, perhaps using it to reach higher? In my garden I often ponder how my gardener or bug sprayer will step, on the stepping stones I laid, or simply on the grass, no, more likely directly on the hose pipe...(I don't have any live wires trailed across my grass). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 12 hours ago, snoop1130 said: A 42-year-old man was electrocuted to death after accidentally stepping on a live power outlet on a wet floor and breaking it. Easily preventable death... absolutely shocking. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikebell Posted May 14, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 14, 2022 Thais are totally without spatial awareness; watch them on pavements as they lurch in to others; as they gather for a chat at the top of escalators; when they are driving across three busy lanes to U-turn. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post maingmoom Posted May 14, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 14, 2022 What always worries me is electrical wires all over the floor in open air markets. they must be easily damaged on the rough dirt floors. When it rains this must make it highly dangerous. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegoniners Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Uh, electrocuted to death? Electrocuted means death, lol 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 13 hours ago, snoop1130 said: A 42-year-old man was electrocuted to death after accidentally stepping on a live power outlet on a wet floor and breaking it. Please can you check your grammar this reads like he broke a wet floor. No RCD fitted. end of. My RCD is so sensitive it flips off even when lightning ⚡ is close by. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macahoom Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 12 hours ago, Woof999 said: Electrocuted to death? If he wasn't electrocuted, he wouldn't be dead. Anyway, sad loss of life that happens here so frequently. 8 minutes ago, brucegoniners said: Uh, electrocuted to death? Electrocuted means death, lol Definition of electrocute transitive verb 1: to kill or severely injure by electric shock 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Warrior Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 RIP seen so many unsafe exten, leads 90% unsafe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Meeseeks Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 2 hours ago, mikebell said: Thais are totally without spatial awareness; watch them on pavements as they lurch in to others; as they gather for a chat at the top of escalators; when they are driving across three busy lanes to U-turn. Yup. They don't think about their surroundings at all. Frustrating at times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJRS1301 Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 It seems that tradespersons and market stall holders are not terribly bright when it comes Work Health Safety matters, especially electricity and trip hazards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylophone Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 55 minutes ago, Road Warrior said: RIP seen so many unsafe exten, leads 90% unsafe Me too, and the state of some of the multi-outlet extension leads is downright deplorable and just waiting for some poor soul to depart this mortal coil by touching or using one. My ex GF had a couple of these leads that weren't working, so gave them to me to have a look at, and I decided to take them to pieces to have a look inside, and what I found was frightening: – the size of the internal wiring was about 0.5 ml and the soldering on it/them was minimal; the live and neutrals "changed places" as they went from pin to pin (these were made in China) and the metal connectors were thin steel, coated with brass, but still showing signs of rust. Furthermore, the way that they are used in many Thai households is just asking for trouble. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJRS1301 Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 14 minutes ago, xylophone said: Me too, and the state of some of the multi-outlet extension leads is downright deplorable and just waiting for some poor soul to depart this mortal coil by touching or using one. My ex GF had a couple of these leads that weren't working, so gave them to me to have a look at, and I decided to take them to pieces to have a look inside, and what I found was frightening: – the size of the internal wiring was about 0.5 ml and the soldering on it/them was minimal; the live and neutrals "changed places" as they went from pin to pin (these were made in China) and the metal connectors were thin steel, coated with brass, but still showing signs of rust. Furthermore, the way that they are used in many Thai households is just asking for trouble. As far as I am concerned it ain;t working, then into the bin it goes. Buy a new lead, although have very few extension leads and no multi power boards 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbko Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 1 hour ago, brucegoniners said: Uh, electrocuted to death? Electrocuted means death, lol e·lec·tro·cute /əˈlektrəˌkyo͞ot/ Learn to pronounce verb injure or kill someone by electric shock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylophone Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 7 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said: As far as I am concerned it ain;t working, then into the bin it goes. Buy a new lead, although have very few extension leads and no multi power boards Agree in the main, however I thought I would have a look inside of these extension leads/multi-power boards just to see what the quality was like, and it was, in a word, disgusting/terrible. In the apartment in which I live, I only have a double socket outlet on the wall where my electrical equipment is (computer, monitor, TV, Soundbar, CD player etc) so unfortunately I have to use a multi-power board or two, however I buy the most expensive ones and ones which I give the once over before I buy. I do have an electrical engineering qualification from way back, so I do back myself on these things, however some of the "installations" I see here absolutely terrify me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woof999 Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 2 hours ago, macahoom said: Definition of electrocute transitive verb 1: to kill or severely injure by electric shock Definition of electrocute (dictionary.com) verb (used with object), e·lec·tro·cut·ed, e·lec·tro·cut·ing. to kill by electricity. to execute (a criminal) by electricity, as in an electric chair. Regardless, he's dead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 8 hours ago, maingmoom said: What always worries me is electrical wires all over the floor in open air markets. they must be easily damaged on the rough dirt floors. When it rains this must make it highly dangerous. Try walking up or down Lower Sukhumvit passing the odd Soi's at the cables crossing the whole sidewalk being used by the street vendors, my trolley wheels were catching the cables all the time and I had to keep yanking them. I was not going to stop and keep lifting my trolley over them all the time. One thing I do not want is big biceps looking like an over muscled monkey man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE1 Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 22 hours ago, snoop1130 said: facing upside down on a wet floor Explanation please ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobU Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 11 hours ago, brucegoniners said: Uh, electrocuted to death? Electrocuted means death, lol No it doesn't you can be electrocuted and not die. It happens a lot most people are thrown back from the point of electrocution because it is AC power and receive burns to the point of contact What can happen is the heart is stopped by the shock which causes death (by electrocution) which is probably what happened to this poor chap. If he is standing in water the electric shock can continue through the water and cause convulsions which kill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangkokReady Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 23 hours ago, Woof999 said: Electrocuted to death? If he wasn't electrocuted, he wouldn't be dead. Came here to say the same thing. What next? Murdered to death? Drowned to death? Unfortunately, "electrocution" (death by electricity) has been perverted into any severe electric shock. Which, of course, is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangkokReady Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 10 hours ago, bbko said: e·lec·tro·cute /əˈlektrəˌkyo͞ot/ Learn to pronounce verb injure or kill someone by electric shock. The clues in the word. Electro-cute, similar to exe-cute. It means death. It literally comes from the word execute, but to kill specifically with electricity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangkokReady Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 10 hours ago, RJRS1301 said: It seems that tradespersons and market stall holders are not terribly bright when it comes Work Health Safety matters, especially electricity and trip hazards. It's a cultural thing. ????♂️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangkokReady Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 12 hours ago, brianthainess said: Please can you check your grammar this reads like he broke a wet floor. It also isn't a wet floor, as it is outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 20 hours ago, xylophone said: Me too, and the state of some of the multi-outlet extension leads is downright deplorable and just waiting for some poor soul to depart this mortal coil by touching or using one. Love to see bare wires stuffed into the socket holes on extension chords, with a few bits of wood holding them in! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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