More than 2,280 per year? At a cost of 12 child fatalities. [0]
And I'm aware of expanding electrical code requirements, every time I have to deal with a tamper-resistant outlet or AFCI over-exuberance with an unhappy motor. Or spill-proof gas can nozzles.
My point being -- there's a optimal balance between efficiency and safety, and it's not "zero accidents, ever."
And you quip, but getting a 120v pop as a kid certainly made me respect thoroughness in ensuring circuits and components are depowered before work and being extremely careful working on live wires.
Absent my "accident" I would not have had that caution, and the consequences working on subsequent higher-amp systems would have been more serious.
More than 2,280 per year? At a cost of 12 child fatalities. [0]
And I'm aware of expanding electrical code requirements, every time I have to deal with a tamper-resistant outlet or AFCI over-exuberance with an unhappy motor. Or spill-proof gas can nozzles.
My point being -- there's a optimal balance between efficiency and safety, and it's not "zero accidents, ever."
And you quip, but getting a 120v pop as a kid certainly made me respect thoroughness in ensuring circuits and components are depowered before work and being extremely careful working on live wires.
Absent my "accident" I would not have had that caution, and the consequences working on subsequent higher-amp systems would have been more serious.
[0] https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/...