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Subject: Re: electrical deaths
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:21:59 -0700
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On 11/30/2024 4:13 PM, Joerg wrote:
> I regularly visit a guy in a care home who is there because of a fall from 
> great height. A former neighbor in Europe wasn't so lucky. He only lived, to 
> some extent, another four days in the hospital.

My Math teacher in JrHigh was changing the lights on the ceiling
of the gymnasium (some 30 ft above the hardwood floor) with another
person (I don't recall who -- nor why a math teacher was doing something
that a maintenance person should have!)

To save time, instead of climbing down the scaffolding to unlock the
wheels, move it 6 ft, relock the wheels, and reclimb it, they would
pull themselves along by grasping the I-beams that supported the
ceiling.

Of course, the scaffolding eventually fell.  Must have been an interesting
experience, clinging to the I-beams in the hope that someone would
discover your folly and re-erect it before your grasp failed.

He spent months in a body cast (broken back) -- but, was in reasonably
good spirits (realizing that he was the source of his own problem).