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Electric shock 31.10.2005

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Electric shock

A 19-year-old on a 10-month course got a job with an electric company, and had been working as a labourer for just two months when he was transferred to a lighting crew. At his employer's instruction, he was working on 120-volt fluorescent lighting ballasts that were "hot" (with the power still running through them) without safety mats, wire testers, safety gloves, instructions or a blueprint of the wiring plan. He was killed instantly when 347 volts of electricity went through his body.

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