Why is it dangerous to work near electricity?
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Certainly your majesty. Anything else you would like to demand of us while you are at it?
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its just static electricity as far as I know caused by friction such as when you rub a balloon on your head and your hair raises. Also our bodies are naturally full of electricity
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An electric shock can occur upon contact of a human or animal body with any source of voltage high enough to cause sufficient current flow through the muscles or nerves. The minimum detectable current in humans is thought to be about 1 mA. The current may cause tissue damage or heart fibrillation if it is sufficiently high. When (and only when) an electric shock is fatal, it is called electrocution.\n\nAn electric shock is usually painful and can be lethal. The level of voltage is not a direct guide to the level of injury or danger of death, despite the common misconception that it is. A small shock from static electricity may contain thousands of volts but has very little current behind it due to high internal resistance. Physiological effects and damage are generally determined by current and duration. Even a low voltage causing a current of extended duration can be fatal. Ohm's Law directly correlates voltage and current for a given resistance; thus, for a particular path through the body under a particular set of conditions, a higher voltage will produce a higher current flow.\n\nShock effects:-\nPsychological\nThe perception of electric shock can be different depending on the voltage, duration, current, path taken, frequency, etc. Current entering the hand has a threshold of perception of about 5 to 10 milliamperes (mA) for DC and about 1 to 10 mA for AC at 60 Hz. Shock perception declines with increasing frequency, ultimately disappearing at frequencies above 15-20 kHz.\n\nPhysiological:-\n\nBurns:- Tissue heating due to resistance can cause extensive and deep burns. High-voltage (> 500 to 1000 V) shocks tend to cause internal burns due to the large energy (which is proportional to the square of the voltage) available from the source. Damage due to current is through tissue heating.\n\nVentricular fibrillation:- A low-voltage (110 to 220 V), 60-Hz AC current traveling through the chest for a fraction of a second may induce ventricular fibrillation at currents as low as 60mA. With DC, 300 to 500 mA is required. If the current has a direct pathway to the heart (e.g., via a cardiac catheter or other electrodes), a much lower current of less than 1 mA, (AC or DC) can cause fibrillation. Fibrillations are usually lethal because all the heart muscle cells move independently. Above 200mA, muscle contractions are so strong that the heart muscles cannot move at all.\n\nNeurological effects:- Current can cause interference with nervous control, especially over the heart and lungs. When the current path is through the head, it appears that, with sufficient current, loss of consciousness almost always occurs swiftly. (This is borne out by some limited self-experimentation by early designers of the electric chair. and by research from the field of animal husbandry, where electric stunning has been extensively studied)\n\nPoint of Entry:-\n\nMacroshock Current flowing across intact skin and through the body. Current traveling from arm to arm, or between an arm and a foot, is likely to traverse the heart, and so is much more dangerous than current traveling between a leg and the ground.\n\nMicroshock Direct current path to the heart tissue
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NO that is very dangerous DO NOT DO THAT u could get shocked.Which can be fatal or leave _____ with  a serious injury
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Not nearly as long if you use nonels rather than electric. They are safer too.
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What you just said would be good enough reason. If there are unsafe work condition, then that gives the potential for people to get hurt. That is a lawsuit waiting to happen. How bad are the work conditions? If I were I would take it up with the Better Business Bureau if it is serious enough..but if you have already quit, I don't understand why you need another reason?
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Your concept of the linesman is correct, however, being immersed in a body of water is dangerous.  Lightning carries a far greater potential than that of what the linesman faces.  True, there is no conduction of current to ground, but the copter and the line must be equalized before contact can be made.  This is because of the state of "STATIC ELECTRICITY".  Energy that is "Static" is not moving.  Nevertheless, when it comes in contact with another object, one who's energy level is at a different potential, the energy no longer remains static.  The sudden rush of current will be felt.  That's why when you cross the rug and grab the door knob you get a shock.  You have a significantly higher potential than the door knob and when you touch it there is a rush of energy trying to equalize the differences.\n\nBeing in a pool at essentially zero volts and a crack of lightning hits close by, the ground and the water in the pool will charge up before dissipating the lightning strike, possibly leaving you dead.  Wouldn't that ruin your day?\n\nDuring lightning storms stay out of the pool or the tub, do not be running the sink and stay off the phone (cordless phones do not apply in this case as there is no direct wiring to the outside world).  There have been documented cases where persons on the phone have been struck in the head by lightning, again it's due to that equalization of energy levels thing.\n\nHey, even if everyone is wrong, wanna risk your life?  You could die in a tub if someone dropped something electrical in the water.  True, your assumption is that water conducts better than the human body, but that is a wrong assumption.  Pure water is an insulator.  It's the impurity in water that makes it conduct.  Our bodies are actually much better conductors of electricity.  Don't believe me?  Ask someone like an electric shop teacher.\n\nI hesitate to give you a test to try because of the danger of electrocution, but if I were at your house I could demonstrate in a matter of seconds that what I am saying is true.  But for the sake of not causing someone to try a potentially dangerous experiment I'll not be specific.\n\nHowever, if you must know, e-mail me and we can chat.  When I am confident of your ability to conduct the test safely then I will tell you how to do this.
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Yes power transmission lines can be harmful. I would definitely do not touch them.  Causing cancer?  Well a few more studies need to be made to prove or to disprove that.
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Friction causes the electrical charge. Touch something rubber to kill it. Touch metal to continue the conduction thus shocking yourself or others. Break the curcuit.
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Because it is against the LAW. The load could fall damaging property, hurting OR killing someone.
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I think u have been shocked with electic current recently. The fear will be finish by time. By the way its good to be very cautious with electricity.
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A car's frame is made of metal.  If lightning strikes the car, the metal will conduct around you through the metal because metal is a better conductor than your body is.  Unsafe is electricity going through you.  Do not stand upright in a storm or even under a tree.  Also don't lay flat on the ground because if lightening strikes near you, the conduction through the ground may offer more resistence than your body and the electricity may take a shortcut through your body.  Best thing without a car is to squat down.
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Electricity is a tool only to be wielded by the Lord himself.  Man is not capable of controling lightning and to harness it within bulbs is blasphemous.
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It's rather interesting actualy, alternating current is said to be four or five times as dangerous as direct current, because it induces more severe muscular contractions. But on the same token AC (alternating current) has a tendancy to throw you oh higher voltages, which means with AC you have a better chance of being killed by blunt trauma from being thrown against a wall.\n\nI hope this answers your question. :)
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Very very dangerous. Potentially fatal.
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you mean static shocks its built up sdick electricity and when you touch metal it discharges. there for shocking you. its not real elctrisity.
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A corded phone is more dangerous because if lightning strikes the telephone wire outside, the electricity could travel through the telephone wire then to your telephone's cord which is attached to the part of the phone you are holding. Thus, the electric current travels right into you! However, with a cordless phone there is not a direct path to you when lightning strikes the telephone wire outside.\n\n(If your telephone wires are buried and not in the air, then you're OK either way. Also, there is a way to properly ground aerial wires to protect against lightning surges.)