Rice cooker claims life of 40-year-old OFW

NEVER touch electric appliances if your hands are wet.This was a painful lesson for the family of Elvira Demotor, an overseas Filipino worker in Bahrain who was in Cebu when she met her untimely death.Demotor, 40, was electrocuted after she came in contact with their plugged rice cooker while her hands were still wet.Shanaine, the victim’s daughter, told police that she and her mother were at her house in Barangay Tubigagmanok in Asturias, northwest Cebu on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, when the incident happened.Shanaine recalled that at around 6 a.m., her mother did not notice the rice cooker’s cord had been damaged when she was about to plug it into a power outlet.Shanaine said her mother suddenly collapsed to the floor just after plugging the cord into the outlet.Demotor was rushed by her family to the Alan Adlawan Infirmary Clinic in the same town but she was later pronounced dead on arrival.Trisha Ann Demotor, one of Demotor’s daughters, lamented her mother’s early demise. She described her mother as “a loving and caring mom.”“She always prioritized us, her children, and loved us more than her life,” she told SunStar Cebu.Demotor is survived by her six children: four daughters and two sons.In a separate interview, SFO1 Mervin Singlatan of the Asturias Fire Station said electric appliance owners must make sure that their hands are dry if they touch damaged wires or power cords.Singlatan said water from moist hands is capable of conducting electricity.He also urged appliance owners to regularly check the wires and cords to avoid accidents like what had happened to Demotor.