Anyone Ever Get Electrocuted?

[Sean Clark]

Anyone answering yes does not understand the definition of electrocuted. That means that you are dead.

 

[ZombieEngineer]

Anyone answering yes does not understand the definition of electrocuted. That means that you are dead.

Nope. It means you were injured or died. Not just died.

 

[Sean Clark]

Nope. It means you were injured or died. Not just died.

Sign me up for maybe dieing by elecrution chair then.

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

Anyone answering yes does not understand the definition of electrocuted. That means that you are dead.

That is as most associate the term with the electric chair. Many people have survived being electrocuted.

Edit. I assure you, being taken to the ER in an ambulance, unconscious, defibrillated with permanent heart arrhythmia and joints that all swelled and turned black for months was in fact electrocuted

 

[Sean Clark]

So if I survive am I free to go? I mean you did it, right? So I served my sentence...

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

So if I survive am I free to go? I mean you did it, right? So I served my sentence...

I’m pretty sure not. Google the new Oxford dictionary or Miriam Webster dictionary for the meaning and prove me wrong. I’ll retract my statement

 

[Sean Clark]

I’m pretty sure not. Google the new Oxford dictionary or Miriam Webster dictionary for the meaning and prove me wrong. I’ll retract my statement

OK so electrocution no longer requires death, ask OSHA what electrocution means.

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

OK so electrocution no longer requires death, ask OSHA what electrocution means.

OSHA will typically not investigate a work place incident unless death or dismemberment was involved, and I don’t need to ask OSHA.

 

[Sean Clark]

OSHA will typically not investigate a work place incident unless death or dismemberment was involved, and I don’t need to ask OSHA.

OSHA oversees the largest economy in the world. You are correct you do not need to ask OSHA because they tell you. Their investigation practices have nothing to do with their regulation. That is like saying you did not cheat because you did not get caught. That also does not change the definition.

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

OSHA oversees the largest economy in the world. You are correct you do not need to ask OSHA because they tell you. Their investigation practices have nothing to do with their regulation. That is like saying you did not cheat because you did not get caught. That also does not change the definition.

By your overwhelming logic, if you died from electrocution outside of the workplace, where osha has no jurisdiction, then you weren’t electrocuted. Amazing!

 

[gbroadbridge]

I’m pretty sure not. Google the new Oxford dictionary or Miriam Webster dictionary for the meaning and prove me wrong. I’ll retract my statement

Dictionaries spout some worthless mumbo jumbo a lot of the time.

The legal definition (at least where I live) is electrocution is death by the passage of current through the human body. I'm pretty certain that is consistent in OH&S terminology around the world.

Like the electric chair

 

[Sean Clark]

By your overwhelming logic, if you died from electrocution outside of the workplace, where osha has no jurisdiction, then you weren’t electrocuted. Amazing!

This argument could be very interesting to see play out. But it does not change the definition within a workplace.

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

Dictionaries spout some worthless mumbo jumbo a lot of the time.

The legal definition (at least where I live) is electrocution is death by the passage of current through the human body. I'm pretty certain that is consistent in OH&S terminology around the world.

Like the electric chair

I humbly retract my statement. I falsely stated that I had been electrocuted, a worthless mumbo jumbo definition. I ask for everyone’s forgiveness and am completely humiliated and embarrassed. We can now move on.

 

[MoshJosh]

Not in my reef, but in my porch pond. . . Twice

initially wasn’t sure what was happening, my hand/arm was tingling every time I touched the water, almost like hitting your funny bone.

I had the brilliant idea to touch the power strip to see if it was wet. . . it was. . . and that felt worse than a tingle.

 

[Mark Gray]

I have been zapped from stray voltage, but nit Electacuted. I do a fare bit of electrical work in wet environments, been hit much harder at work.

 

[WVNed]

100s of times at work. Dozens of times in my tanks. It isnt pleasant but life goes on

 

[EricR]

Symantecs are fun.
*have been "tingled" and "ouched" before by AC but I'll stay away from the "electrocution" discussion.

Ground probe?
Yes most people implement this?
...or
No, not likely?

Never even thought about it before and still thinking NO for me
*contained, ungrounded water actually feels safer to me right this second (((for the life in the tank)))

 

[tbrown]

I always cut the power off before working on the inside of my tank. Anyone ever get electrocuted? Just Curious what that was like. Thanks all

I got electrocuted a couple of times installing light switches. That's enough to not want to get electrocuted in water... But I rarely turn stuff off when works on my tank. I probably should though.

 

[WVNed]

I don't guess young people dare each other to touch the electric fence anymore.

 

[HBtank]

Y’all need to use GFCI outlets