Dangers
- Contact with electricity is the third leading cause of fatalities in construction (per 2015 Fed OSHA statistical data)
- 81 out of 937 fatalities in the construction industry during 2015 were the result of electrocutions (8.6%)
- Health Effects:
- Burns
- Ventricular fibrillation & cardiac arrest
- Respiratory arrest
- Arc blast damage (hearing damage or loss, blast lung injury, collapsed lung from pressure wave, shrapnel wounds)
- UV light burns to eyes & skin
- Electrocution/Death
