I guess you don’t have to feel with your hand how hot the water is before stepping in?
I am speechless. If she is too stupid to check the temp before stepping in, just think of the chaos she will wreak with $750000...JFK
This is proof that the modern legal system is more than a check on the power and “greed” of the free market. Sometimes companies get crushed by lawsuits.
My water heater is set just low enough to not pop off the (recently calibrated) pressure relief valve.
When I want hot water, I want HOT water.
And I have problems believing that anyone could get serious burns from 136F water. A) it's not that hot, I can hold 325F pans in my hand for about 2 seconds without burns. 2) Get out, if it's too hot.
I'm thinking someone may have been drinking.
/johnny
Apparently she never heard of the temperature sensing device called a “toe.”
If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the shower. Duh.
Pfft. Chump change. She should have bought some hot coffee at McDonald’s.
Someone I knew sat in on an operation in which a man who had been horribly burned in a shower received skin grafts. But in that case the man had slipped and been knocked unconscious so that he could not react as the overly hot water poured on him.
If I couldn’t get more than 130 degrees in a shower i’d replace the water heater!
That’s just luke warm!
I have mine set at 180 and by the time I get through with a shower I have the cold turned off!
Who doesn’t feel the water temp and adjust it before stepping in?? As Bugs would say, whadda maroon!
No two ways about it.
No way would she have stepped all the way in if she had a functioning nervous system.
Just like face-transplant-woman who slumbered away while her dog chewed her face off, this woman was clearly drugged to the gills. 136 degree water would probably take minutes (minutes!) to do such destruction. It probably took the smell of her scalding flesh before she figured out something was wrong. I fail to see how the defense counsel couldn’t have called expert witnesses to make mincemeat out of her.
No doubt the plantiff pushed every racial button in the books (there I go assuming things).
Frankly, I’ve been suspecting for years than most corporate counsels are in ideological cahoots with the shakedown artists. Can anyone have graduated from law school in the last three decades who is NOT a raging lefty? Why should government/media/higher ed/entertainment be the only institutions the leftys have been making their long march through?
Why I would never own rental property....complex, duplex, house, bungalow, whatever.
We are doomed.
The thermostat on my water heater died a few years ago. It took a couple of days to replace it but, until then, the water came out either ice cold or scalding hot.
The temporary solution was easy. I put out a couple of towels on the shower floor, turned on the shower, let the towels slowly adjust the water to room temperature and then took a towel bath. I didn’t go looking for someone to sue. And the landlord had a new thermostat in a few days.
Have people lost all sense of coping skills?
CPSC:
Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds. Burns will also occur with a six-second exposure to 140 degree water or with a thirty second exposure to 130 degree water.
SO those who claim they could shower in 136-degree water and not get burned are either wrong, or have extremely thick skin.
According to data from the National Safe Kids Campaign, 4000-5,000 children are scalded each year, most often in bathtubs. The average bathtub scal burn covers 12% of the body surface with a full thickness third degree burn. Statistics from the National Safe Kids Campaign indicate that the scald burn sources were 95% residential settings, 54% in apartment house, and 46% in single family homes.4
If you want to set the temperature in your own house to a heat that could give people 3rd-degree burns, I think that should be your right.
But after decades of warnings that hot water should not be higher than 120 degrees, it is not unreasonable that a woman could get a judgment if a heater that she does not have access to as a renter burned her because it was set to 136 degrees.
And even if you think she should be responsible for testing the temperature, it doesn't help to suggest that 136 degrees is a safe or desired temperature for water.
My fiancee is a massage therapist. When he does a “hot stone massage” the stones are kept in water that is kept at a temperature of 140 degrees, and he puts his hands in this water to remove the stones with no ill effects at all.
Folks when a water heater blows because the pop off valve and the electrical safteys fails the side of your home will be gone as in big loud boom followed by falling walls.
Or think about your money like this. It is likely the second biggest and most frequent power draw in your home with the electric furnace and central air being number one.