Hot umbilical?
Have some fun with this!
Take the unit back to the dealer. Have the DW tell them (you fled unseen in your car) that "My husband the tort specialist is in the hospital on life-support because of near electrocution".
Wonder where the thousands of tons of drugs go to? Well they go right to the workplace where the bong becomes more important than preventing idiocy from falling into the hands of an innocent consumer.
A miswired transfer switch rendering a plug HOT is a dangerous situation. Fines of upwards of a hundred thousand dollars will improve their short-term memory. Report this to the Feds.
