PEA steps up wire checks following electrocutions

 

PATTAYA:--The Provincial Electricity Authority has promised more vigilance in the wake of three electrocution cases, including one that killed an employee.

 

PEA manager Nirut Charoenchob said July 19 that crews are being dispatched throughout the city to look for low-hanging wires and other hazards, some of which were caused by recent storms.

 

One unidentified Pattaya resident ended up in the intensive care unit following a recent incident where he was shocked by electrical cables hanging into his garden. He is expected to recover.

 

Nirut said the PEA took responsibility for the accident, as it was their fault for not cleaning up the wires. In the utility’s defense, however, he said the garden was about 20 meters from the road and called the garden a “blind spot” that technicians couldn’t see.

 

The PEA manager visited the victim in the hospital and said the utility would pay his hospital bills.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/pea-steps-wire-checks-following-electrocutions-181755

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2017-08-04

They wouldn't know where to start!

Just disgraceful that after 3 electrocutions, one causing death, the PEA decides after much ado, that they should act.

More idiots in administration!

the Bill Gates effect didn't last long then

Electricity and Thai,s......a lethal combination  

1 hour ago, petermik said:

Electricity and Thai,s......a lethal combination  

Alcohol and Thai's 

Narc's and Thai's 

Guns and Thai's 

Motorbikes , cars , trucks ,  buses and Thai's

Authority and Thai's

Money and Thai's ..

Sex and Thai's 

are all lethal combinations of varying degrees in this place .. 

 

PEA Sattahip came to visit our Moo-ban after we complained a Thai drunk had rammed a pole leaving it in a dangerous, potentially lethal condition.  Within two weeks a gang arrived; uprooted part of the garden; smashed a water main and went away.  They promised to come back soon.  (That was two weeks ago.)  Watch this space for reports of another tragedy;  the pole borders a busy road; a neighbour's house and our guard hut.