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If an inexpensive electrical device were properly installed in every household, nearly 70 percent of the approximately 240 electrocutions that occur every year in the US would be prevented.

Such was the case for California parents who should not have let their seven-year-old and nine-year-old daughters play in a filled bathtub near a hair dryer, especially when the dryer should not have been plugged in, and the outlet should have had a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI). Both children died when the dryer fell into the bathtub.