Woman is electrocuted when her iPhone dropped into her bath while it was charging

[Reefa]

A young Russian woman has died after dropping her charging iPhone into the water while she was taking a bath.

Moscow resident Evgenia Sviridenko, 24, was found lifeless in the bath by her female housemate who had grown concerned about why she had been silent in the bathroom for so long.

Miss Sviridenko is understood to have been using the phone to look at her social media page on VKontakte - the Russian version of Facebook - when the accident occured. It has not yet been established why the charger didn't cut out as licensed Apple products are designed to do.

Speaking to local media from the apartment the two young women shared with Miss Sviridenko, Yaroslav Dubinina, 23, said: 'I noticed that she had been gone a while, and when I couldn't raise her I opened the door and saw her floating on the water looking really pale.'

'I saw her phone which was on the charger and at the bottom of the bath, and I unplugged it and pulled her out...Her body was still shaking from the shock,' she added.

Police are now investigating why the phone charger did not apparently cut out and refused to reveal whether it was a licensed Apple product or not.

Russian media said Miss Sviridenko's iPhone 4 had still been working despite falling into the water because an automatic update had been posted on her social media page saying she had called the emergency services telephone number.

Miss Dubinina said that her friend had recently arrived in Moscow from her home in Omsk and they had decided to share a flat together as neither of them could afford a flat on their own.

Miss Sviridenko's death comes just days after a 16-year-old Russian girl died after taking her charging iPhone into a shower.

A regional Investigative Committee spokesperson said initial tests had suggested the girl died from an electric shock but that the investigation was ongoing.

Again it is not known whether the charger used in the second incident in Russia's Bashkortostan Republic was a licensed Apple product or whether it was a fake.

VKontakte, known as VK, is the largest Russian-language social network in Europe and is particularly popular in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

As of November 2014, VK had at least 280 million accounts and is the second most visited website in Russia, after the Google-style search engine Yandex.

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[oliverjia]

I smell murder

[sirri]

Bad indeed. Phone looks did not like her and killed by remote :huh:

R I P

[Jime234]

oho !!!

R.I.P.

Not a good day to go... :s

[ffi]

On other sites people posted teardowns of fake chargers, while I don't understand all the technical details what I did understand is that these fake charger can be very dangerous as they take little or no precations seperating the high voltage imput side from the low voltage output side or even put in a fuse

[Ballistic Gelatin]

If there had been a working GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) installed in her bathroom, she might very well be alive today. They're mandatory in the U.S. for areas in the home subject to excess moisture or water splashes, such as near kitchen sinks, laundry areas and in bathrooms.

Even with a GFCI, I'd never use any kind of appliance plugged into an AC outlet (or the "mains") while bathing.

[The Owl]

sorry and I am sorry the world has lost a good looking young lady but taking something electrical in to the bathroom is stupid and to handle it while in the bath is even worse. IMHO Self inflicted stupidity and Darwin at work.

[Arachnoid]

The charger output itself is a 5 volts so unless the actual power lead fell in the bath I find it hard to understand anyone blaming the charger fake or not.

[ffi]

The charger output itself is a 5 volts so unless the actual power lead fell in the bath I find it hard to understand anyone blaming the charger fake or not.

look at these teardowns, these fake adaptors could easily put 220V on the USB

[Future Soldier]

holy shit can this even happen

[AlexCross]

Who takes electronics in the shower? A new level of stupidity.

[oliverjia]

Who takes electronics in the shower? A new level of stupidity.

some people couldn't live without being on these fuxxing social websites all the time.

Guess people like me who does not even has a smart phone is almost extinct nowadays, lol

[CODYQX4]

Who takes electronics in the shower? A new level of stupidity.

some people couldn't live without being on these fuxxing social websites all the time.

Guess people like me who does not even has a smart phone is almost extinct nowadays, lol

Maybe Darwin was right, can't say I mind if a couple people who post 5 selfies an hour get electrocuted... or walk into traffic.

[info999]

She committed suicide .... :s

[The Owl]

She committed suicide .... :s

only one thing killed her "Stupidity" taking an electrical item in the bath

[dMog]

might actually make the darwin awards with this one...but i have hard time understanding how 5 volts could have killed her...is this an urban myth??

[lurch234]

might actually make the darwin awards with this one...but i have hard time understanding how 5 volts could have killed her...is this an urban myth??

Its not the voltage that harms you but the amperage ^_^ And it takes very little!

Amperage Not Voltage Kills

There are many dangers associated with electricity. The real danger with electrical shock is amperage, not voltage. Although people have been killed by as little as 120-volt AC and low voltage DC, the silent killer is the amount of amperage in milliampers that flow through a person's body. Any electrical device is capable of dealing a deadly blow, depending on the amount of current flowing through it. In fact, a deadly dose of current in the 100-200 milliamperes range is likely a fatal amount.

To better understand how amperage amounts effect the human body and how your body reacts to these amperage levels, the following list of effects has been furnished to help you determine the severity of an electrical shock.

• 1-10 Milliampers
• Person will feel little or no electrical shock effects or sensation.
• 10-20 Milliampers
• Painful shock will occur like a jolt, but muscle control will not be lost at this amperage.
• 20-75 Milliampers
• This shock is more serious. You'll receive a a painful jolt and muscle control will be lost resulting in the inability to let go of something you may have grabbed that is shocking you.
• 75-100 Milliamperage
• As the current approaches 100 milliamperes, ventricular fibrillation of the heart occurs and damage is done.
• 100-200 Milliamperes
• Ventricular fibrillation occurs and death can occur if medical attention is not administered quickly.
• Over 200 Milliamperes
• Severe burns and severe muscle contractions occur. Your heart can stop during a shock because the chest muscles put pressure on the heart. Internal organs can be damaged at this stage and in you survive, a painful recovery can be expected. What may surprise you about this level of shock is that through this clamping effect on the heart, ventricular fibrillation is avoided and the chances of a person's survival is good if the victim is removed from the electrical circuit.

Amperage Not Voltage Kills

[Jime234]

might actually make the darwin awards with this one...but i have hard time understanding how 5 volts could have killed her...is this an urban myth??

Its not the voltage that harms you but the amperage ^_^ And it takes very little!

Amperage Not Voltage Kills

There are many dangers associated with electricity. The real danger with electrical shock is amperage, not voltage. Although people have been killed by as little as 120-volt AC and low voltage DC, the silent killer is the amount of amperage in milliampers that flow through a person's body. Any electrical device is capable of dealing a deadly blow, depending on the amount of current flowing through it. In fact, a deadly dose of current in the 100-200 milliamperes range is likely a fatal amount.

To better understand how amperage amounts effect the human body and how your body reacts to these amperage levels, the following list of effects has been furnished to help you determine the severity of an electrical shock.

• 1-10 Milliampers
• Person will feel little or no electrical shock effects or sensation.
• 10-20 Milliampers
• Painful shock will occur like a jolt, but muscle control will not be lost at this amperage.
• 20-75 Milliampers
• This shock is more serious. You'll receive a a painful jolt and muscle control will be lost resulting in the inability to let go of something you may have grabbed that is shocking you.
• 75-100 Milliamperage
• As the current approaches 100 milliamperes, ventricular fibrillation of the heart occurs and damage is done.
• 100-200 Milliamperes
• Ventricular fibrillation occurs and death can occur if medical attention is not administered quickly.
• Over 200 Milliamperes
• Severe burns and severe muscle contractions occur. Your heart can stop during a shock because the chest muscles put pressure on the heart. Internal organs can be damaged at this stage and in you survive, a painful recovery can be expected. What may surprise you about this level of shock is that through this clamping effect on the heart, ventricular fibrillation is avoided and the chances of a person's survival is good if the victim is removed from the electrical circuit.

Amperage Not Voltage Kills

So how much amperage did our poor lady victim received ?

[lurch234]

According to this little graph she could have got up to 1 amp! Which is death assuredly...

Everything you wanted to know about charging your iPhone or iPad

[ffi]

Its not the voltage that harms you but the amperage ^_^ And it takes very little!

Amperage Not Voltage Kills

this explains a bit more but you need both actually

[VileTouch]

i prefer the toaster method myself, but nevertheless,

[The Owl]

those are the OUTPUT's

if it is a Docking type charger where do you think the INPUT voltage comes from the BLOODY MAINS

Christ people use your brains

[dMog]

those are the OUTPUT's

if it is a Docking type charger where do you think the INPUT voltage comes from the BLOODY MAINS

Christ people use your brains

so when you do or say something stupid do other people get to tell you are a bone head too//// or is this just a one way street...just be because you are old it is not make it ok to always be the angry old cranky man.....i understand what you are saying and why, but really... take a deep breath once in awhile :lol: and sometimes 3 or 4 of them :rolleyes: as you have military background you should fully understand that every hill you stand on is not always a hill to die on...i understand you have principles and agree with your base philosophy..but damn man cut us stupid people SOME slack once in awhile :lol:

[The Owl]

I would prefer to pull stupid people up short sharply and make them think then hopefully it might just save their lives.

[dcs18]

Woman is electrocuted when her iPhone dropped into her bath while it was charging

That is really tragic - hope that the future brings us a total risk-free experience, soon (regardless of the brand of appliance.) :pope: