• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Probably because it’s not all that much of a problem. It’s not very common to hurt yourself via normal use of American electrical devices. Not when we have cars and guns to wantonly kill each other with.

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        1 year ago

        We have child safety outlets that are required in remodels and new construction. The regulation is over a decade old. If people replaced their old outlets, the vast majority of those injuries would not be present. The outlets are about $1 each.

        We also have arc fault and gfi circuits required, which old houses don’t have. Those are replacement too. But people are cheap, lazy, or lack the skill to do these minor upgrades themselves.