Electrocution

Electric shock occurs upon contact of a (human) body with any source of electricity that causes a sufficient current through the skin, muscles or hair.  Well, it’s a good thing I cut off all my hair last week, because it would probably be standing up right now.

Have you ever had a “near miss” situation happen to you?  At first you were in shock, then took a deep breath and laughed it off. A few minutes later you stop and think, “what are the chances I could have died?”  I experienced that moment today.

It was cold in that room….  The air was thick with dust, making it difficult to see….  A feeling of fear was present, as my spine begin to tingle.  I’m kidding.  I was really just doing some demolition that included cutting and pulling out wires from the walls, lots of wires.  Little did I know that one of those wires was a hot one, still plugged in, and flowing with plenty of electricity!  The clippers I used were very sharp and cut through wires like butter.  So let me explain what I saw within that second.  As I cut I heard a loud POP, saw a big blue flash, and went blind for about a half a second; followed with a “WOW” by the other guy in the room.  A few minutes later I found the clippers laying under a bunch of rubble, which I don’t remember leaving from my hands.  After making sure I was still alive, we all just kind of laughed it off, and got back to work.  But a little later, I couldn’t help but think, what are the chances I could have seriously been hurt or killed from that. So I looked up some statistics.

Each year, there are 500 deaths from electrocution (notsoboringlife.com), meaning there is about a 1 in 10,000 chance you can die from electrocution.  This makes me feel a little better.  However, that is still a lot of deaths from electrocution.  People, please be careful the next time you are changing your light bulbs.

A.J. Blizzard

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