Multiple people electrocuted in ‘freak accident’ while enjoying swim in pool: police Police determined a wire on a pool pump had been pinched

Fox News ^ | 8/25/2024 | Bradford Betz

[Signalman]

Five swimmers in Indiana were electrocuted in what police described as a "freak accident" in a swimming pool Sunday afternoon.

Officers, fire and medical personnel responded to a home in the 2600 block of High St. just after 2:30 p.m. in the town of Logansport, Indiana, police said.

Police said five people – including two adults and three juveniles – were transported to local hospitals for their injuries.

Medical personnel transported two of the juveniles to different hospitals for further treatment.

A spokesperson for the Logansport Police Department described the incident to Indianapolis’ FOX 59 as a "freak accident."

Police determined that a wire on a pool pump had been pinched, causing a protective cover to break. The exposed wire made contact with the pool water and shocked the five swimmers, according to the station.

Logansport is located in Northern Indiana, about a 90-minute drive north of Indianapolis.

[blackdog]

I'm an Industrial electrician. I worked on 4,600 Volt motors with 120v and 24V control systems. Mostly Seimens and Allen Bradley. Cutler Hammer Smart Buckets for the last 20 years of my career. My fears were more on the 2,000HP motors and the bearings that would catch fire. It takes four hours to cool down a catastrophic failed bearing on a shaft with a water hose. Don't stop the motor circuit either! Just ramp it down a hundred RPM every two minutes.

The other thing to hurt you was the anti condensation heaters on the motor starters. When a motor is turned off, the 120 volt heaters inside the windings turns on automatically. As you are untiring the 4,600 volts, the 120 volts is turned on when a motor circuit is turned off.

So I pull the 120 volt fuses inside the buckets before I touch a damned thing. I've been standing chest deep in water disconnecting a 15,000 pound 4,600 Volt motor only to find that pinhole in my boots tingling my foot.

[minnesota_bound]

Time to switch to LED lights. Lower voltage.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Don’t need no stinkin’ GFCI

[Chewbarkah]

Per multiple online “definition” sources (Wikipedia, Mirriam-Webster, Oxford, etc.), “electrocution” applies to severe non-fatal injury by electric shock, as well as death.

[gundog]

Maybe they owe him money.

[gundog]