Thursday, March 1, 2012

WA:Coroner: safety switch could've saved boy


AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-2011
WA:Coroner: safety switch could've saved boy

PERTH, Feb 28 AAP - The West Australian coroner says the electrocution of a two-year-old
boy in a government-owned house could have been avoided if a safety switch had been fitted.

Cassius Lenny Jack Norman was electrocuted in Roebourne, in WA's Pilbara region, on
September 5, 2009.

The toddler was at a birthday party and playing a game of hide and seek when he climbed
through a hole in a wall and touched a wet extension cord.

An inquest was told that electrical contractors had falsely signed a notice saying
the house had been …

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