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 <a...@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 >
