Re: electrical deaths

On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:21:59 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 11/30/2024 4:13 PM, Joerg wrote:

I regularly visit a guy in a care home who is there because of a fall from
great height. A former neighbor in Europe wasn't so lucky. He only lived, to
some extent, another four days in the hospital.

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My Math teacher in JrHigh was changing the lights on the ceiling
of the gymnasium (some 30 ft above the hardwood floor) with another
person (I don't recall who -- nor why a math teacher was doing something
that a maintenance person should have!)
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To save time, instead of climbing down the scaffolding to unlock the
wheels, move it 6 ft, relock the wheels, and reclimb it, they would
pull themselves along by grasping the I-beams that supported the
ceiling.
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Of course, the scaffolding eventually fell.  Must have been an interesting
experience, clinging to the I-beams in the hope that someone would
discover your folly and re-erect it before your grasp failed.
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He spent months in a body cast (broken back) -- but, was in reasonably
good spirits (realizing that he was the source of his own problem).
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In 6th grade, a guy came into our class with a lader to change a
fluorescent tube. Miss Denton wisely decided to take the class for a
walk. Before we were all out of the room, the giant fixture collapsed
onto a row of desks. Kids would have been killed.

Even worse, some kid brough in a swolen can of something as some sort
of science demo, and put it on a windowsill in the Louisiana sun. It
exploded and splattered insanely putrid stuff, mostly on the Student
Council President.