On Wed, 23 May 2007 19:51:46 GMT, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:

|!
|!"nightjar .uk.com" nightjar@insert my surname here wrote in message
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|!
|! "Huge" wrote in message
|! ...
|! ...
|! 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."
|! ...
|!
|! 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

Just compare that with the about 9 people we kill per day on the roads.
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