Sattahip — An 82-year-old Thai woman in Sattahip has become a social media hero after she used a rope to pull an electrician to safety from a potential electrocution and gave the man CPR to save his life.

The viral incident occurred on July 8th, 2024, at a house in the Plu Ta Luang sub-district, Sattahip district, Chonburi province. Emergency responders received a report of an electrician suffering from an electrical shock and rushed to the scene.

 

Upon arrival, responders found 61-year-old electrician Mr. Somsak lying on a wooden table in front of the house. Although the man was still conscious and able to communicate, he appeared weak after getting shocked.

 

Mr. Somsak explained that he was using a ladder to climb to the rooftop to repair a faulty electrical line. However, he accidentally touched a metal gutter that had leaking electricity, causing him to be shocked and immobilized.

 

By Aim Tanakorn

 

Full story: THE PATTAYA NEWS 2024-07-10

 

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I saw the video on Thai media, she used a rope to pull his leg, I reckon the guy will be sore, the way he fell from the ladder. 

Hope he's OK.

 

Good on the old duck for saving the man. 

 

Edited July 9, 20242 yr by SAFETY FIRST

This is the CCTV of her actions.

 

A good outcome for a change, you read a lot about how many Thais takes lives in all sorts of circumstances and here

we have someone who give life back, kudos to the lady...

Good job grandma. That’s how we all should be responding to an accident instead of most people just filming it. Lucky man. 

She’s 82, brought up before the “stand back, just film” generation.

 

I’m always amazed how the badly trained and incompetent “electricians” here are so willing to work on live circuits, without any PPE including insulating gloves. Life is cheap.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Mr. Somsak explained that he was using a ladder to climb to the rooftop to repair a faulty electrical line. However, he accidentally touched a metal gutter that had leaking electricity, causing him to be shocked and immobilized.

Next time call a professional

4 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Next time call a professional

 

Few and far between here, especially electricians. We helped the Mrs brother through college to become an electrician a few years back. He seemed clueless when we asked him anything about electrical problems and ended up working illegally in Korea.

1 hour ago, Classic Ray said:

She’s 82, brought up before the “stand back, just film” generation.

 

I’m always amazed how the badly trained and incompetent “electricians” here are so willing to work on live circuits, without any PPE including insulating gloves. Life is cheap.

Whilst I agree with this comment re. working on live power lines, one does not expect nor anticipate getting a shock from a house gutter.

 

Reminds me of when we moved in to this house and had an 'electrician' installing a shower. Told the mrs to tell him to make sure it was earthed, he wanted to know what that meant!

Informed woman.

Rope to avoid contact electrocution, 

Fast heart pumps (mouth stuff not actually required)

 

Guess the twerking was due to physical limitation.  

But nice job lady !

Edited July 10, 20242 yr by ignore it

thai electricians.... earth wire, what is that?

I once worked on a European-supplied system delivered to the UK.  The cabinet wiring was black-black for live-neutral, rather than brown-blue (UK standard).  The blacks were marked however.  We bitched about it and got an unsurprising arrogant response.  The European manufacturer's slightly long-sighted installation guy zapped himself good and proper one day, and wasn't happy about the amount of "sympathetic" laughter he heard.  It ain't just the Thais who struggle with electricity!