A daily-wager with PDD was electrocuted to death and another employee of the department was shifted to hospital in unconscious state as they came into contact with live wire, while repairing a power line in Mendhar area of the Poonch district on Thursday (May 2), official said.
They told media that the incident occurred at Gursai Morh area in Sector Harni of Mendhar at about 1000 hours as one daily wager namely Naseer Ahmad , the daily-wager, son of Lal Hussain of Harooni Gursai, received electric shock and was badly injured. He was later shifted to Sub District Hospital Mendhar where he was declared dead by doctors.
Moreover, they said, one more employee (mechanic) of the power development department namely Abdul Rehman son of Mohammad Gulzar of Ari, who was working with Naseer Ahmad at the time of incident, also received electric shock and fell unconscious on the spot. Rehman, a heart patient, was later also shifted to SDH Mendhar in the unconscious condition. More details are awaited.
Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from “electro” and “execution”, but it is also used for accidental death.
The term “electrocution” was coined in 1889 in the US just before the first use of the electric chair and originally referred to only electrical execution and not other electrical deaths. However, since no English word was available for non-judicial deaths due to electric shock, the word “electrocution” eventually took over as a description of all circumstances of electrical death from the new commercial electricity.
The health hazard of an electric current flowing through the body depends on the amount of current and the length of time for which it flows, not merely on the voltage. However, a high voltage is required to produce a high current through the body. This is due to the relatively high resistance of skin when dry, requiring a high voltage to pass through. The severity of a shock also depends on whether the path of the current includes a vital organ.
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