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November 24, 2011
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PSC adopts new rules intended to prevent accidental electrocutions

Source: baltimoresun.com

Regulations dedicated to Deanna Camille Green, who was killed in Druid Hill Park in 2006 Image

During an emotional hearing Friday, the Maryland Public Service Commission adopted new regulations intended to prevent accidental electrocutions like the one that killed 14-year-old Deanna Green at a church softball game in Druid Hill Park more than five years ago.

The requirements will force state electric companies to find — and eliminate — dangerous "contact voltage" in public objects that can transmit electricity, such as streetlights, traffic signals and playground equipment.

Deanna was killed in May 2006 by voltage that traveled through her body as she stretched on a ball field, unknowingly bracing her foot against one electrified fence as her hand reached toward another, closing a deadly circuit.

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Comments

  • I think this is "wonderful" (fine example of government in action). Now the utilities will be responsible for the installation and maintenance of a system they didn't design, didn't install, and (previously had) has no responsibility to maintain.

    Now, pray tell, will they be authorized to go onto private property, locate a "faulty" conductor/equipment, and correct/repair......and bill whom? And according to what "standard", the NEC, NESC...? This is an example of what happens when certain agencies are exempt from the various "safety" codes (NEC, for example). Will homes and factories be far behind?

    W. L. Ramage, P.E., ESI

    w. Ramage  November 25 2011, 10:52 am EST
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