Electrical Testing Equipment

3YOM WAS OUTSIDE PLAYING WHEN HE JUMPED OFF A SMART METER AND HIT HIS FOREHEAD. DX HEMATOMA OF FOREHEAD@

52YOF WITH COMPLAINT OF MECHANICAL FALL AT 4PM. PATIENT REPORTS THAT SHE WAS WALKING AND TRIPPED OVER A BOX THAT HAD A METAL WINCH ON TOP OF IT. PATIENT REPORTS THAT SHE FELL FOWARD AND INJURED HER LEFT, UPPER ARM. SMALL ABRASION TO THE RIGHT THENAR EMINENCE NOTED ON EXAM. DX: GROUND LEVEL FALL AND LEFT HUMERUS FRACTURE

15YOM AT VOCATIONAL TECH SCHOOL LEARNING ELECTRICIAN TRADE, CHECKED VOLTAGE ON PROJECT WHEN A FLARE ARC OCCURED STRIKING HIM AT THE BASE OF LT HAND, NOT WEARING GLOVES DX ELECTRIC INJURY

67YOM HAD AN ELECTRICAL METER BLOW UP IN HIS FACE, DX: BURN TO FACE

26YO F C/O LEFT KNEE PAIN X 6 DAYS KNEE PAIN STARTD AFTER PT'S ELECTRICSHOCK THERAPY (ECT) L KNEE BRIEFLY DISLOCATED DX: LEFT KNEE PAIN

^53YOM STS WAS WORKING ON THE CAR USING BATTERY TESTER, WIRE ON TESTER POPPED UP HIT PTS R EYE 20 MIN PTA DX LAC R CONJUCTIVA,EYE TRAUMA,

28 YOM SUSTAINED A PUNCTURE WOUND TO HIS L THUMB AFTER STABBING HIMSELFWITH AN ELECTRICAL VOLTAGE TESTER

DX WRIST SPRAIN 23YOM PATIENT C/O RT WRIST PN BEGAN SLOWLY WHILE WORKING ON ELECTRICAL TESTING EQUIPMENT PN INCREASES WITH LIFTING

68YMC USING AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION TESTING METER IT FELL AND SHARPPOINT HIT EYE/EYE TRAUMA

JOINT PAIN, THINKS MAY HAVE TETANUS FROM ADCCIDENTLY POKING LEG WITH TEST LIGHT 3 MO. AGO. DX; ARTHRITIS FEET.

RT CORNEAL AB-@ HOME-PICKED UP AN ELECTRIC TESTER-HIT EYE

SHOCKED WHILE HOLDING AN ELECTRIC METER WHEN IT EXPLODED IN HIS HAND

The defective product is a "Craftsman" Autoranging Multimeter Model 82175 S/N 07030045011 made for Sears by Extech. A similar meter failed causing severe burns to its user (S/N 20061293403). I am a registered professional engineer who is required to report public hazards. I am currently investigating the above incident in my capacity as a forensic electrical engineer. It is well known that users often apply these meters at the wrong settings and they are designed to protect the user with internal fuses and other techniques. The exemplar, purchased more than a year after the incident meter, contains a soldering defect that shorts out the protective fuse, eliminating its protection. This type of soldering defect would readily explain why the plaintiff's meter caused an arc flash and he received burns. The meter's circuit board is partially "wave soldered" and partially manually soldered. The exemplar meter that i have shows that the manual connections were made by someone not fully trained in soldering, and it is likely that he was instructed to make the connection in the way that shorts out the fuse. Although the meters contain a sticker that claims "QUALITY CONTROL - PASSED," this safety related short would not show up in any operational test other than a destructive test. These meters need to be sample tested to determine if the manufacturing defect is widespread. I have photographs and diagrams that illustrate the defect.

Hi, I work for a company [REDACTED] that manufactures radon detectors (digital and smart). We periodically purchase competitive products and have them tested to ensure they are truly accurate products. The brand Elifecity has a product called Radon Guard. We purchased four of these products and sent them to a third party lab, [REDACTED], to be tested. The products were tested over a period of 48 hours and seven days in a chamber with radon levels of 26 pCi/L. The products showed average radon levels of 1.16 pCi/L and 1.17 pCi/L. I reported this to the Illinois Attorney General and to Amazon - to this day, these are still being sold on Amazon and consumers are relying on these to let them know their radon levels in their homes.

The consumer states he used the product to test an outlet in his home. While he was using the product he saw smoke and sparks coming from the test leads. At that time the consumer stopped using the product. The consumer was not injured. He states the product has 4 places on the test leads that have exposed copper. He states this was his first time using the product and the wire test leads appeared intact and did not appear damaged before he used it. Consumer believes the unit poses a fire and shock hazard.

The Klein product in question did not do its job. As such on a live 110-120Volt line it showed or sounded any live current. After three attempts kill the proper breaker( it still malfunctioned) now this was for me not a life threatening situation as I had the peoprer PPE on but still with no visual audio or other means of detections I did suffer a small mlli second shock. But the point is Klein has a much better reputation than this an should not be putting to market items that aren’t fully capable of detecting any voltage let alone what this one is rated to. Had it of been something on this items upper limits certain death on my part.

Used the Pro Power Meter Electric Cost Meter, Model# PPM3000 with an air conditioner pulling approx 1400 watts. The Pro Power Meter melted along the live terminal of the plug

The on/off button does not function properly, comes on by itself and goes off during use. Constantly need to check to verify status, will go off during use, while it does have an auto off function, is not it does not work in a predictable pattern. it is a NCVT-1 date code 07158-G6 this has been an ongoing issue but is becoming more unpredictable

I have a young son who turns 4 in July, my home was built in 1984 and due to our current and future needs I've determined that a electrical sub panel needs to be installed to lighten the load of a few 15 and 20 amp circuits that are close to/at risk of being overloaded if any new devices are added to them. When it comes to my sons young age and the increasing age of my home, 35+ years, advancements in device safety and the laundry list of recommended updates of the past 13 editions of the National Electric Code since my home was built. Due to my extreme desire to keep my entire family safe, my 3 year old son from doing something really stupid like shoving a metal object into an outlet... Much like his dear ol' dad did around his age, I'm now 32 and remember it vividly but it has led to a lifelong interest in all things electric and I make my living as a day trader and the stock market my degree is in electrical engineering which is great but it was stupid and I don't recommend it and to keep my home not on fire I have a pretty long list updates to get done from install the sub panel to updating the receptacles' to tamper resistant ones as well as adding ones with USB charging and or GFCI/AFCI etc, updated breakers and adding circuits and receptacles' where needed. The main purpose is for my family and I to be safe and if I couldn't do any of these updates safely or to a high enough level where I can guarantee it was done correctly and poses no risk from poor installation or use of the wrong tool etc I would more than happily have a professional handle it and step one of just about any electrical job is shutting off the power to either the whole home or to the circuit being worked on. Just to be safe I always use my KLEIN TOOLS Circuit Breaker finder tool in the outlet, light fixture or switch being worked on so the correct breaker is turned off, I then would power on one of the 2 now recalled non contact voltage tester, test it on an outlet or fixture that notice

suffered a electric shock