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Their Son Went to a Night Party Then His Bones Snapped, and a Popping Sound Was Heard From the Utility Room the Next Month
The tragic case of Wade Steffey
It was in the morning hours.
A maintenance worker heard a popping sound. The worker rushed towards the washers and dryers to check.
Then suddenly, another popping sound. But it wasn’t coming from the laundry room.
Confused, the worker left the laundry room.
She took out her keys and opened the door to the utility room. Then she stepped inside the utility room.
And she made a grim discovery.
“Wade had positioned himself in a narrow space between a transformer and the walk of the vault.
He was electrocuted when he inserted his left hand finger into a 0.88-inch hole of an exposed conductor attached to the transformer.” — The report from an accident reconstruction group.
Wade Was a Nineteen-Year-Old Teen
Wade Samuel Steffey was nineteen years old and a Purdue University freshman from North Carolina, USA.
He was an exceptional student.
