Once... 990 vac at 30 amps for a split second from right hand to left hand.
Stopped breathing, no heart beat but still aware for a few seconds.

How quiet everything got! Oh, I could still hear my coworkers laughing as I slid
to the floor, but the normal, unnoticed noises of respiration and circulation
were gone. About the time my vision started to go (seeing green, purple, black
splotches, all else fading), my heart gave a great single beat then took off
into tachycardia, then settled after a few seconds into a normal but fast
rhythm. I could breath and see again, but was too weak to get up for several
minutes. By this time the coworkers had figured out things were a bit more
serious and I was helped to my feet. That's when I noticed the burn on one hand,
where my thumb knuckle had brushed the case of the defective amplifier. It never
really hurt, the burn spot, but my chest muscles were sore for a week, also took
about that long for my strength return to normal.

I've been shocked many times before and since, but that was the closest I got to
buying the tiny farm.

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:29:46 +0100, Paul Burridge
wrote:


The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever
had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived?

p.