The memo came out four years ago and now the NYSlimes reports it.
I had to go back again to the article to catch something that was current.
Apparently in 2007 KBR found some unsafe wiring at a base and supposedly the military didn’t do anything about it.
Talk about digging deep for dirt.
I’m an electronics engineer who has been shocked senseless on a number of occasions. Some folks say I didn’t recover. Electrocuted in a shower or a swimming pool seems a bit far-fetched to me, although I’m not saying it didn’t happen. Electricity always follows the easiest path to ground, and if that happens to be through you, you’ll get shocked. I would hesitate to blame that on KBR. Usually getting between the electrical charge and the ground can be avoided. I wonder if these supposedly electrocuted people were attempting to change a light bulb or dry their hair at the time. Sounds fishy to me.
The latest electrocution occured in January of this year. It's hardly a dated subject.
But...I did not take it as old news, but rather a problem languishing in the not-my-job bureaucracy and apparently still killing people. The photo of the service panel was appalling. The also had a photo of the most recent casualty, a 5th Group NCO in Bagdad.
What was troubling was the number of people interviewed who found someone else to be responsible. But nobody seemed interested in stepping up to fix the problems.