25 Aug
2015
25 Aug
'15
10:41 p.m.
As a child I remember getting a shock from a fridge and being "thrown"
across the room into the wall opposite. I really did crash into the
wall quite hard, so I can imagine it being very easy for the shock to
cause other injuries.
Regards
Rob
On 26/08/2015, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Remember that
most injuries associated with electric shock are secondary -
that is, the real damage often occurs when the individual recoils from the
shock, jamming their hands into even worse places in the equipment - like
rotating assemblies. And then there's the innocent guy behind you, who
gets
knocked into his equipment, when you jump back.
An obvious example of this is the the charge stored on the 'capacitor' of a
CRT
(the capacitor being formed by the final anode coating inside the glass
flare and
the coating on the outside) is not likely to be lethal for most people. But
it will
you jump, you will then either drop the CRT (if you are carrying it) or jerk
back
and break the CRT with whatever tool you are holding. And then the CRT
implodes, you get showered in glass....
-tony