Re: electrical deaths

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 13:02:56 +0000, Richard Jones
<news@rgjones.screaming.net> wrote:

On 27/11/2024 02:53, john larkin wrote:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Age-adjusted-mortality-rates-from-electrical-injuries-per-1-million-population-European_fig1_221916189
 
The US (0.63 PPM) is probably low partly because we have mostly 120
volt gadgets. I usually wire boxes hot, and get tickled now and then,
no big deal.
 
Some countries are astounding.
 

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I managed to get stuck on UK 240 Volts back in the eighties. Picked up a
live mains piece of equipment forgetting I'd removed the access base.
It locked my arms up to my chest and I had to be switched off. Fecking
scary feeling when you realise you can't let go. Still have the scars
forty years later where the live solder pins tuned my skin to liquid!

I'm pleased that you are still here to tell us about that.

I got across the secondary of an old TV power transformer when I was a
teenager, something like 800 RMS. I shook for a couple of days.