A Thai woman suffered serious injuries after she was electrocuted while getting off a tagada ride at an amusement park in the central province of Lopburi on Sunday.

 

The incident occurred on a tagada ride at the International Amusement Fair at CS Park on Sunday, June 2. Two people were injured, one of them seriously.

 

The tagada ride comprises a spacious, circular bowl where riders can delight in the spin and music without the use of seatbelts. Passengers have the option to grasp the handrail behind their seat as the ride rotates or bounce in the centre of the bowl. However, this ride has been prohibited in certain countries due to numerous accidents and associated injuries.

 

The seriously injured woman was 19 year old Nattakamon, also known as Beam. Beam was electrocuted when she touched the stair handrail while getting off the ride. She lost consciousness and fell down the stairs, hitting her head on an iron structure.

Beam’s friend, whose identity was not disclosed, also suffered electrocution upon touching the stair handrail and subsequently lost consciousness. Fortunately, she was propelled back into the ride’s bowl. Beam was admitted to Sing Buri Hospital, where doctors informed Channel 3 that she had sustained a skull fracture near her right eyebrow, two broken ribs, and potential eye damage that could result in astigmatism.

 

The manager of the amusement park pledged that the establishment would assume responsibility for the incident. He asserted that the electrocution did not occur directly on the tagada ride but was instead caused by electricity leakage from a decorative light.

 

The metal stairs acted as a conductor, leading Beam and her friend to be electrocuted when they touched them.

 

The park manager added that the staff did their best to help the two victims. One staff member cut off the power while others contacted the rescue team.

 

The park insisted that the team had already checked for the electricity leak and fixed it. They also rechecked every ride in the park to ensure safety.

 

by Petch Petpailin

Photo via Facebook/ พิราบขาว สิงห์บุรี

 

Source: The Thaiger 2024-06-05

 

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Note to self:  Always carry an electric current sensor when visiting amusement parks in Thailand.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The park insisted that the team had already checked for the electricity leak and fixed it. They also rechecked every ride in the park to ensure safety.

🤔🙄😆🤣

Nasty business

Hope they have a full and quick recovery.

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The park insisted that the team had already checked for the electricity leak and fixed it. They also rechecked every ride in the park to ensure safety

Need to check again or get someone who knows what they;re doing.

Earthing?

RCD?

 

No, TIT

There are so many electrocutions in Thailand people in swimming pool people touching metal people touching poles. They don’t seem to want to ground anything here TIT.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

However, this ride has been prohibited in certain countries due to numerous accidents and associated injuries.

But not in Thailand , take your live in your own hands , 

 

regards worgeordie

Thais by the most part, do not understand earthing....no, we don do!

7 hours ago, webfact said:

He asserted that the electrocution did not occur directly on the tagada ride but was instead caused by electricity leakage from a decorative light.

Cop out already. 

Electrocution means death...not survival.

17 minutes ago, Doc Undies said:

Electrocution means death...not survival.

 

Yawn...   really ??....    How many times do we have to have these ridiculous comments on the semantics of what is obviously meant every time the word electrocuted is used in a report.

 

The reality is, everyone in these arguments are both right and wrong because there is no hard and fast rule as everyone seems to claim.

 

 

 

Collins Dictionary: If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary: electrocuted; electrocuting - to kill or severely injure by electric shock.

 

Cambridge Dictionary:  electrocution - the action of killing someone by causing electricity to flow through their body.

1 hour ago, kidneyw said:

8 hours ago, webfact said:

He asserted that the electrocution did not occur directly on the tagada ride but was instead caused by electricity leakage from a decorative light.

Cop out already. 

 

Indeed....     'he' may have been working out how to 'fit brake failure'....  'slippery roads due to rain'.... or 'lap-nai'.... in there....    

 

Obviously couldn't...  So blamed the lighting because the ride was working perfectly well !!!! 

 

 

In other news...  a Ferris wheel broke from the mountings and rolled down the hill killing all those riding....   the owner reported there was nothing wrong with the ride, it was working perfectly well but the bolts used to secure the ride are at fault for breaking...   (at this stage I have to point out the parody of the above comment just incase someone like LL wants me to quote a source)

6 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Yawn...   really ??....    How many times do we have to have these ridiculous comments on the semantics of what is obviously meant every time the word electrocuted is used in a report.

 

The reality is, everyone in these arguments are both right and wrong because there is no hard and fast rule as everyone seems to claim.

 

 

 

Collins Dictionary: If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary: electrocuted; electrocuting - to kill or severely injure by electric shock.

 

Cambridge Dictionary:  electrocution - the action of killing someone by causing electricity to flow through their body.

Yawn back at ya

1 minute ago, Doc Undies said:

Yawn back at ya

 

Yup... that lack of education further highlighed with a 'nothing' comment.  Well done.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai woman suffered serious injuries after she was electrocuted

Where I come from if you are electrocuted, you are dead. 

 

10 minutes ago, Doc Undies said:

17 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Yawn...   really ??....    How many times do we have to have these ridiculous comments on the semantics of what is obviously meant every time the word electrocuted is used in a report.

 

The reality is, everyone in these arguments are both right and wrong because there is no hard and fast rule as everyone seems to claim.

 

🥱

 

Collins Dictionary: If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary: electrocuted; electrocuting - to kill or severely injure by electric shock.

 

Cambridge Dictionary:  electrocution - the action of killing someone by causing electricity to flow through their body.

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Yawn back at ya

Knock it off guys, I'm empathetic, now I'm yawning. 

 

Time for bed. 

 

Edited June 5, 20242 yr by SAFETY FIRST

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Need to check again or get someone who knows what they;re doing.

As long as they don't know the difference between neutral and earth, it will remain life-threatening.

I do think a voltage detector in your pocket, as mentioned above, is a funny solution, but let's face it, if we have to prepare for everything that way, we're better off staying at home.

8 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

Note to self:  Always carry an electric current sensor when visiting amusement parks in Thailand.

 

Or just don't visit them in Thailand full stop.

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Where I come from if you are electrocuted, you are dead. 

 

 

Born in a penitentiary ?  

What a hair raising experience.

they aren't electrocuted because they are not dead. 

10 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

As long as they don't know the difference between neutral and earth, it will remain life-threatening.

I do think a voltage detector in your pocket, as mentioned above, is a funny solution, but let's face it, if we have to prepare for everything that way, we're better off staying at home.

And they want to build something along the lines of Disney world in Thailand... 

19 hours ago, The Theory said:

🤔🙄😆🤣

And the Flying Pig Show started 2 minutes after all the electrics were given the OK  

safety last.. if you smart (lol) you avoid place like this, or bungee jumping 

The women were shocked by electricity. That would be the correct way todescrib3e what happened.

  This is Thailand though, so English translation is difficule, you know. IMO

Harvey

On 6/5/2024 at 3:18 AM, webfact said:

The park insisted that the team had already checked for the electricity leak and fixed it. They also rechecked every ride in the park to ensure safety.

 

Well they didn't fix the leak, so sack them!  Thailand have some very strange laws, You will get arested for defamation but, when it comes to serious mistakes like electric wich could kill you, but no laws against that.

If the owner  was if living in another country, he would be fined with with (insert your local  currenncy) millions.  

This is why I don't switch on pool lights.

But then I live in a condo where the juristic head man had a brainstorm, put solar panels atop the building and connect 3 elevators to them.

They managed to do this, no checks, permits, nothing.

An owner/electrical engineer in the building notices the lifts would stop between floors, jolting stops, people getting stuck, doors not opening etc.

He asks the building staff why, they tell him, he calls everyone a fkcin idiot, it takes them a week to reconnect the lifts to the mains.

 

Reason: Looking for ways to cut condo running costs.

That must have come as quite a shock to her. 

Any country, people die in the USA or are seriously injured on amusement rides. No thanks.