In the news today ... tesco fined for electrocution

[Dustydazzler]

Tesco get £500,000 fine after 10-year-old electrocuted reaching for an ice lolly

Tesco have been fined more than £500,000 after a 10-year-old boy was electrocuted while getting an ice lolly from a freezer. The supermarket firm pleaded guilty to two health and safety offences at Reading Magistrates Court earlier this week after the incident in 2017 at their store in...

uk.yahoo.com

 

[Wilko]

Thankfully it was not a tragedy.

I am in favour of big fines as it will get publicity and hopefully change behaviours. I didn’t know about the incident before and I’m not far from the shop.

I will accept bets this circuit was not RCD protected. It never tripped so staff just let it be...

 

[Micktw68]

electocuted...or received an electric shock ? Glad the kiddie didn't die, no doubt Tescos apportioned blame onto their maintenance contractor.

crap clickbait reporting though.

 

[loz2754]

I always used to think electrocuted meant killed by electricity. And Collins and Cambridge dictionaries define it this way. Electrically executed.
Seems that Oxford have defined electrocuted as killed or seriously injured by electricity.
Thankfully the child is ok.

 

[ipf]

I always used to think electrocuted meant killed by electricity. And Collins and Cambridge dictionaries define it this way. Electrically executed.
Seems that Oxford have defined electrocuted as killed or seriously injured by electricity.
Thankfully the child is ok.

I agree.. it seems to be 'death or severe injury', these days.

An english language mixture of electric and executed. Blame the Yanks again, it seems.

 

[FatAlan]

Serious injury is bad enough but as ipf. Just a sensational headline to hook you in.