AP NewsBreak: Contractor electrocuted in shower

Chiron · Post by **Chiron** » September 9th, 2009, 5:14 am

WASHINGTON — A State Department contractor apparently has been electrocuted while showering in Baghdad even as U.S. authorities in Iraq try to remedy bathhouse wiring problems that have led to the deaths of American troops there.

The contractor, Adam Hermanson, 25, died Sept. 1, his wife, Janine, said Tuesday. She added that a military medical examiner told her that preliminary findings indicate her husband died from low voltage electrocution.

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IntelToad · Post by **IntelToad** » September 9th, 2009, 9:12 am

For fuck's sake, not again. What a senseless waste. I hope heads roll for this.

RRDTm3 · Post by **RRDTm3** » September 9th, 2009, 9:14 am

I dont get it, why and how does this keep happening?

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » September 9th, 2009, 10:01 am

RRDTm3 wrote:I dont get it, why and how does this keep happening?

Maybe they need to look in to the which contractor did the electrical work...

Rock Island Ranger · September 9th, 2009, 10:39 am

Gives new meaning to "Cleanliness is next to Godliness".

Oto-Man · Post by **Oto-Man** » September 9th, 2009, 5:40 pm

RRDTm3 wrote:I dont get it, why and how does this keep happening?

Kinda my question too...Last time I checked, I don't need a raw friggin bulb hanging over me to shower......keep da water and da lectric lines away from each other....ding...problem solved...????

(just a fucking joke kids...I was never over there...I don't know the conditions etc....jokes...)

IntelToad · Post by **IntelToad** » September 9th, 2009, 5:49 pm

One of those killed was from here in Pittsburgh. The investigation said the water pump that fed the shower was improperly grounded. Simple stuff any apprentice electrician would know.

Oto-Man · Post by **Oto-Man** » September 9th, 2009, 5:52 pm

IntelToad wrote:One of those killed was from here in Pittsburgh. The investigation said the water pump that fed the shower was improperly grounded. Simple stuff any apprentice electrician would know.

That was actually the point of my ill mannered jest... Water + Power = Bad...to hell with an apprentice electrician...any friggin redneck from my home town can figure that shit out...really.

fatboy · Post by **fatboy** » September 10th, 2009, 5:14 am

I chatted with an electrical contractor on my last trip over, and he was saying something about how the generators were wired, basically the electrical systems were set up by the 3rd world TCN's and then "inspected" by U.S. contractors. Which was pretty much 2 different ways of wiring things and then grounding them out.

litlbird · Post by **litlbird** » September 17th, 2009, 6:48 am

I reckon a little "No Rinse Shampoo" is an applicable solution if not the only solution at this point.

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