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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.
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.
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.
https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/Code-or-topic-fact-sheets/InjuriesElectricalOutletsFactSheet.pdf
Sure it’s less than others killing machines like cars but it’s not insignificant.
5 thousand, out of a population of roughly 350 million, over the course of a year.
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.