<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=undefined&type=result"></script>');
-->
</script>

COPY SCRIPT

For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu

Electrocution in a bath

Name: Electrocution in a bath
Creator: MacKenzie, E. C.
Keywords: Electric Injuries, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Humans, Baths, Female, 01 natural sciences, 3. Good health, 0104 chemical sciences

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1995 Australia English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Science & Justice, volume 35, pages 253-258 (issn: 1355-0306,

Authors: MacKenzie, E. C.;

doi: 10.1016/s1355-0306(95)72677-6

pmid: 7496826

handle: 2440/12859

Electrocution in a bath

- Summary
- Subjects
- Metrics

Abstract

A wife was found dead by her husband, lying in a tiled bath on a cast concrete floor, with a 1 kW electric radiator immersed in the bath water. Initially the case was treated as accidental death, but the police charged the husband with murder on the grounds that his wife could not have died in the manner he described. Subsequent investigation showed that the bath had a low resistance to earth and that there were faults in both the house wiring and the radiator cable, which, together with a high blood alcohol content, produced a fatal chain of events.

Country

Australia

Related Organizations

University of Adelaide
Australia

Keywords

Electric Injuries, Humans, Baths, Female

Impact byBIP!

	citations This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	3
	popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.	Average
	influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	Average
	impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.	Average