Petraeus Weighs in on Shock Deaths

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Petraeus Weighs in on Shock Deaths
August 06, 2008
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq and the next head of U.S. Central Command, has promised to oversee an assessment of more than 86,000 facilities in Iraq in a search for potentially dangerous electrical conditions.

Petraeus, in a July 29 letter to Sen. Robert P. Casey, D-Scranton, said he has formed an electrical safety joint planning team to evaluate risks, identify problems and develop repair plans to prevent more electrocution deaths.

The safety team is the latest development in an investigation of at least 16 accidental electrocutions among service personnel and military contractors in Iraq since 2003.

"This is an important development," Casey said. "As recent as three weeks ago, people were still reporting that they are getting shocked in Baghdad and throughout Iraq. There's still problems there."

Casey has pressured the Department of Defense for answers about the electrocutions after they were brought to his attention by Cheryl Harris of Cranberry, who is the mother of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth.


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