At least seven patients are known to have died in episodes in which Guidant defibrillators failed to work because of the electrical defect, five involving Contak Renewals.

The fourth generation trains entered service from 1 July 2002 after short delays due to electrical defects.

He said that no mechanical or electrical defect had been found in the lift after the accident.

The theatre was badly damaged by a fire caused by an electrical defect on 7 April in 2006.

But it turns out that the same type of electrical defect that destroyed Mr. Oukrop's defibrillator also caused another heart device from Guidant to malfunction.

Company engineers, he explained in a newspaper interview, had promptly identified and fixed the Prizm 2 DR's electrical defect in April 2002.

The cause of the fire was determined at the time to be an electrical defect.

This third wire grounds exposed metal parts; if an electrical defect develops, the current will be drained away and will not expose the user to a shock.

The present definition makes clear that the cause of damage must be 'mechanical or electrical defects in the plant'.

At least seven patients have died in episodes in which Guidant defibrillators failed to work because of an electrical defect.