A terrifying midnight incident has prompted one mother to share her family’s harrowing experience as a cautionary tale about bedroom electrical safety.
Danielle Davis recounted the alarming events of April 30, 2024, when she was awakened by her 16-year-old son Rayce Ogdahl’s desperate calls for help. Upon rushing to investigate, Davis discovered her son standing in the hallway with visible burn marks encircling his neck.
“He said: ‘I’ve been electrocuted,'” Davis recalled of the frightening moment.
According to Davis, her son had been sleeping with his phone charging nearby to ensure his alarm would function for school the following morning. The teenager explained that he had shifted position in bed when he heard something fall. During this movement, his metal necklace made contact with exposed prongs from a charger plugged into an extension cord.
The resulting electrical circuit created a complete path around his neck through the metal jewelry. “Because everything was metal, it made a complete circuit around his neck,” Davis explained.
Despite the severity of the shock, Rayce remained conscious throughout the ordeal. “He said this all happened within a matter of seconds and he visibly saw sparks coming from his neck,” his mother reported. “He told me his whole body hurt and he thought he was going to die.”
Davis immediately transported her son to Integris Health Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma, where medical professionals admitted him to intensive care. Physicians determined that Rayce had sustained second, third, and fourth-degree burns, noting that he had been exposed to “enough amps to kill him.”
The incident has left the teenager with extensive scarring from his chin to his collarbone, with the pattern of his necklace clearly visible in the burn marks. Davis observed that the traumatic experience has made her son “a lot more self-aware.”
Reflecting on how narrowly they avoided tragedy, Davis expressed profound gratitude. “We’re just so grateful he’s OK. He could’ve easily died that night. It was amazing he was still conscious and could still alert us. It would’ve been a different story.”
The concerned mother now shares their story as a warning to others about electrical safety, particularly regarding charging devices in bedrooms. “When it comes to your phone, there’s not a text message or notification that is important enough to have your phone on your bed. Anything can happen and Rayce is proof of that,” she cautioned.
She concluded with specific advice about household electrical practices: “Pay attention to your cords and I would recommend to anybody don’t use extension cords at all.”