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Corine Streicher
In electrical injuries there are 4 primary types of injuries: electrocution (will cause death), electric shock, burns, and falls. These injuries can originate from direct contact with the electrical energy, electrical arcs that leaps to an individual who is grounded, thermal burns including flash burns from heat produced by an electrical arc, flame burns from materials that capture on fire from heating or ignition by electrical currents, and muscle contractions can trigger an individual to fall. The fall can trigger severe injuries... more