“It was like a hot coil”

“He clearly saw sparks coming from his neck,” said Danielle Davis about her son Rayce’s burn

An Oklahoma teenager was electrocuted when his necklace came into contact with the exposed pin of a plug.

On the night of April 30, Danielle Davis was awakened by a scream coming from the bedroom of her 16-year-old son, Rayce Ogdahl. The 38-year-old mother of six ran to help her son as he screamed for help when she found him with burns on his neck.

“We thought maybe he was playing a video game and getting frustrated,” Davis said, according to The mirror“Then I heard him calling ‘Mommy’ and my son was standing in the hallway. He said, ‘I got electrocuted. It was my necklace.'”

“He had burns on his neck. And the smell was terrible. The whole house smelled like burnt hair and skin and electrical burns,” she said. “We called 911 and called an ambulance.”

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Davis said her son was in bed when the strange accident happened.

“He said he leaned out of bed and the cross necklace around his neck came into contact with the pins of an extension cord, which were barely visible,” she recalled. “He said he was fully conscious the whole time and knew he was getting an electric shock. Because it was all metal, it formed a complete circuit around his neck. It was like a hot coil. And he has burns on his hands from trying to rip the necklace around his neck.”

“He said it all happened within seconds and he could clearly see sparks coming out of his neck,” she added. “He told me his whole body hurt and he thought he was going to die.”

Ogdahl was taken to the burn unit at Integris Health Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit. He suffered second, third and fourth degree burns that left him with significant scarring.

Doctors told the family that their son had “endured enough amps to die.”

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Davis said the teenager may need skin grafts in the future.

“You can see the pattern of the necklace on his neck,” she explained. “Almost his entire neck is covered in scars. From his chin to his collarbone.”

Davis and Ogdahl said the accident was an eye-opener for their family and warned others not to run electrical cords near the bed.

The incident definitely made Rayce a lot more confident,” Davis said. “We’re just so thankful he’s OK. He easily could have died that night. It was amazing that he was still conscious and able to alert us. It would have been a different story.”

“When it comes to your phone, there is no text message or notification important enough to have your phone on your bed. Anything can happen and Rayce is proof of that,” she stressed. “Be careful of your cords and I would recommend anyone not to use extension cords at all.”

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