MalleyElectric.Com • NH Masters License #1504M • MA Masters License #905MR • MA Journeyman’s License #1517JR Call Today! 603-595-2970 877-407-7200 - Toll-free 603-886-3740 - Fax line Property of  T.J. Malley Electric, Inc.  (2011) A "GFCI" is a ground fault circuit interrupter. A ground fault circuit interrupter is an inexpensive electrical device that, if installed in household branch circuits, could prevent over two-thirds of the approximately 300 electrocutions still occurring each year in and around the home. Installation of the device could also prevent thousands of burn and electric shock injuries each year. Have you ever experienced an electric shock? If you did, the shock probably happened  because your hand or some other part of your body contacted a source of electrical  current and your body provided a path for the electrical current to go to the ground, so that you received a shock. An unintentional electric path between a source of current and a grounded surface is referred to as a "ground-fault."Ground faults occur when current is leaking somewhere, in effect, electricity is escaping to the ground. How it leaks is very important. If your body provides a path to the ground for this leakage, you could be injured, burned, severely shocked, or electrocuted. GFCI protection is not only the law, but common sense for all. Life is way to dangerous without make our own homes a danger also