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http://longisland.news12.com/news/suffolk-woman-says-she-s-shocked-by-her-shower-1.10774851

 

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PSEG working to fix problem involving electrical shock in Port Jefferson family's shower

August 26, 2015 by GARY DYMSKI / gary.dymski@newsday.com

A Suffolk County woman says she is getting

PSEG Long Island said Wednesday it has resolved an issue with a Port Jefferson woman who was getting electrical shocks when she used her shower.

Elizabeth Tutino told News 12 Long Island she and her daughters had resorted to wearing rubberlike flip-flops and gloves to reduce the risk of being shocked when they shower.

The utility worked Tuesday night into Wednesday morning to fix the case of the shocking shower, a PSEG spokeswoman said.

 

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"She believes the issue is resolved but will be calling her electrician just to be on the safe side," said spokeswoman Elizabeth Flagler.

Tutino could not immediately be reached.

It was Tutino's electrician who told her the shocks were being caused by problems with PSEG's underground wiring, according to News 12. The utility then installed a transformer, which Tutino said did not work.

She told News 12 after recently touching the middle handle on her shower control to turn on the water she felt a shock so strong "I actually yelled."

PSEG said in a statement it took Tutino's issue seriously and its crew "worked through the night to ensure that the problem isn't with our equipment."

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Yikes.

I used to get shocked opening my parents' garage refrigerator.

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I got shocked once in the shower. Not bad. Just enough to get my attention.

Something to do with the hot water heater.

Ha, at my last job, if you touched the cooks cooler and the vat front, you got a charge.

The placement of an electric outlet was too close to the cooks cooler. Sometimes it got pushed against the cord and pushed it out enough to make a connection.



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Oh and Caitlyn learned when she was about 3 not to try to put a black olive in an outlet.



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I don't think I'd continue to use a shower if it were shocking me.no

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DH learned the hard way NOT to have his hands in the dishwater while running the garbage disposal. Gets him every single time.

I have never been shocked. There must be a short in the garbage disposal somewhere. But, I am smart enough to not have my hands in the sink when the darn thing is running. So who knows how long it's been this way?

Probably since DH put the disposal in himself.  no



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lilyofcourse wrote:

Oh and Caitlyn learned when she was about 3 not to try to put a black olive in an outlet.

I met a kid a t "Y" camp who liked to do that with frogs. UGH



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DH learned the hard way NOT to have his hands in the dishwater while running the garbage disposal. Gets him every single time.

I have never been shocked. There must be a short in the garbage disposal somewhere. But, I am smart enough to not have my hands in the sink when the darn thing is running. So who knows how long it's been this way?

Probably since DH put the disposal in himself.  no

It's probably supposed to have a ground wire going from the body of the disposal to a cold water pipe.

Cold water pipes generally are copper all the way to the water meter, and the water meter is supposed to conduct charges through to the pipe coming in from underground.

If the ground wire goes to the hot water pipe instead, it might not be really grounded.

Either way, it sounds like there is a wiring fault inside your disposal.

 

 



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I learned the hard way not to wipe a damp cloth over an outlet when wiping down the walls.



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ed11563 wrote:
just Czech wrote:

DH learned the hard way NOT to have his hands in the dishwater while running the garbage disposal. Gets him every single time.

I have never been shocked. There must be a short in the garbage disposal somewhere. But, I am smart enough to not have my hands in the sink when the darn thing is running. So who knows how long it's been this way?

Probably since DH put the disposal in himself.  no

It's probably supposed to have a ground wire going from the body of the disposal to a cold water pipe.

Cold water pipes generally are copper all the way to the water meter, and the water meter is supposed to conduct charges through to the pipe coming in from underground.

If the ground wire goes to the hot water pipe instead, it might not be really grounded.

Either way, it sounds like there is a wiring fault inside your disposal.

 

 

 Yep to the bolded.

There is probably wiring exposed way to close to the plumbing in the shower in the OP.



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