Family of Electrocuted 7-Year-Old Sues Pool Companies

NBC MIAMI ^ | 6/24/14

[SoFloFreeper]

The father of a 7-year-old boy who died when he was electrocuted in the family’s pool has filed a lawsuit against the company that made the pool light and the one that serviced the family’s swimming pool.

Calder Sloan died on April 17 when he jumped into his family’s pool and was electrocuted. The child’s death was wake-up call to many pool owners around South Florida.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Terrorism????

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I work in the pool industry, and people do really stupid things regarding pool safety. One of the dumbest is done by above/on ground owners who plug 1 or 1.5 hp pool filters into non gfci, interior outlets and then snake yards of extension cords (out of windows usually) to the pool. Fortunately, the motors will overheat, burn out BEFORE anything else happens, but I do know of several small fires that started this way.

With an older IG (this sad story) my guess would be the wiring was deteriorating and gfci either failed or was circumvented. Also, weekly pool inspection? More like weekly visit by pool boy w/a bucket of shock and an OTO kit.

[SkyDancer]

My grandad had a male cat. One day it sprayed his LP record collection. Twenty years later you could still smell the cat urine on the sleeves. (valuable collection - one is an original Beatles LP, first one out).

[Ditter]

LOL! Damn cat!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I bet that room smelled to high heaven of cat spray. We had a woman who had lots of feral cats around. her house smelled so bad it took your breath away when you went in.
Her car smelled, she smelled.

I always avoided going inside her house for any reason. I told the wife I would wait outside, YOU go in.

[bravo whiskey]

swimming pools kill more children each year than guns. maybe pool owners need background checks.

[B4Ranch]

Why was the GFI being used in that location? What was it intended to protect?

[Gaffer]

Sometimes in dining rooms you will see them for buffet hot plates, griddles, coffee pots, food warmers and the like.

I assume that is what it was for. It was an upscale home so whoever built it assumed things like that might be used.

It was also not far from the kitchen so they just pulled the wire on around to the load side of the kitchen GFCO that protected all the outlets there.

[Gaffer]

There’s a product call Urine Destroyer made especially for cat urine (spray). It works pretty well on relatively hard surfaces. Not so much on rugs.

[SoFloFreeper]

AppyPappy, for the comment:
Those facts don’t fit their narrative.

[sarasmom]

I swear to God judge, I was never officially informed, in writing, that failing to wash my hands of my own feces after defecating and before preparing and eating feces contaminated food, might be dangerous to my own and/or my families health!

Is that about right?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I recall the Museum of Science in Boston had uncovered electrical receptacles about 10 inches off the floor in a carpeted lounge area, with sofas, where people with small children could relax while kids crawled around on the carpet. They had a sign posted claiming that covers were not necessary on the receptacles because they were Ground Fault Interrupter protected(!). Even assuming that the potential shock was only transient, what happens when a kid pokes a bobby pin or paper clip between power and neutral. But, hey, they are the Museum of Science.