The ground wire I skipped for 8 years finally bit me in Tulsa

Last Tuesday I got called back to a customer's house because their new fridge kept shocking them when they touched the handle. I checked everything, compressor, relay, control board, and then I noticed I never attached the ground strap on the unit I installed back in 2017. All those years I figured the cord's ground was enough, but the vibration from the compressor had worn through a wire and let voltage leak to the frame. The customer got zapped twice before calling me, felt awful about that. Anyone else ever skip a ground connection and regret it later, or is it just me being too confident in the factory setup?

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nina_butler12d ago

That one story changed my mind, grounding is never optional no matter how solid the factory setup looks.