Ameren Missouri Sued Over Dock Electrocution

The mother of two Boone County children electrocuted in a 2012 Fourth of July boat dock accident at Lake of the Ozarks is suing the utility company that owns the popular recreational lake. A wrongful death lawsuit filed in July in Morgan County by Angela Anderson of Ashland claims that Union Electric Co. failed to notify lake dock owners of the need to install electrical protection devices known as ground fault interrupters at the dock’s juncture with the seawall to prevent shocks in case of short circuits. The utility operates under the name Ameren Missouri. Thirteen-year-old Alexandra Anderson and her 8-year-old brother Brayden Alexander died while swimming at the family’s vacation home in the lake’s Gravois arm.