"nightjar .uk.com" nightjar@insert my surname here wrote in message
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"Huge" wrote in message
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And I'd like to see a cite for this; "Electricity kills and injures many
people
every year. A great many of these people are dead or injured because they
tried
installations which they did not understand."
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When I worked for an Electricity Board, we had to investigate all
electrocution deaths for the Coroner. ISTR the most common cause was using
mains electrical appliances on extension leads in the bathroom. We also
had a small, but steady, stream of teenagers who tried to climb pylons or,
in one case, the insulators in a 132kV sub-station. I only recall one
death that involved anything that could remotely be described as an
installation - one of our own electricians, who was found dead next to a
set of traffic lights he was maintaining.

Colin Bignell

Sadly people do die, the phrase "a great many" seems to be a bit of an
exaggeration. Article 1 on the link is the last one I remember locally.
http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/nr/moderngov/Data/Health%2C%20Welfare%20and%20Safety%20Panel/20010406/Agenda/$Bulletin.doc.pdf

Adam