Electrocution in bath

[Michael Mcneil]

You mean the investigator might possibly have been totally non-partisan? We are talking about a manslaughter -possible murder inquiry, here; no?

[ARWadsworth]

What went worng?

I thought the shower head was not allowed to reach the water in the bath. Read any electric shower installation manual.

-- Adam

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[Rod Hewitt]

"Chris Oates" wrote in news:3f8f07d7$0$23962$ [e-mail]:

Well - if I read the article correctly - the guy didn't take notice of a previous shock that he received. If that happened to me, you wouldn't catch me using it again.

Rod

[BigWallop]

I thought it was the shower unit itself that shouldn't be fitted below the height of the bath rim. But I'm probably wrong. :-))

[IMM]

The shower head should not reach the water so prevent back siphoning. If the mains went to negative pressure dirty bath water would be sucked into the mains.

[BigWallop]

Ah Ha ! That's how it works ?

[IMM]

Yep.

[N. Thornton]

For that reason, I'd say its Darwin Award time. Getting into an electric shower that has already shocked you... erm, no.

Regards, NT