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Victim of Canandaigua electrocution remains in hospital

Canandaigua, N.Y. —
A Canandaigua woman remains in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital after she was electrocuted Friday while removing trees at a home on Brickyard Road, hospital officials said Saturday afternoon.

Ontario County Sheriff's Office Sgt. James Alexander said Stephanie Ganoe was working on the ground near the home and was electrocuted when a boom truck apparently became tangled in electrical wires. Her father, Les Ganoe, was in the bucket of the truck at the time and was not injured.

Stephanie Ganoe apparently saw that the tire had been flattened and went to check the truck when she was electrocuted. The electrical current traveled through the boom and shocked her when she touched the door. The electrical line conveyed 7,200 volts of electricity, deputies said.

Stephanie Ganoe sustained third-degree burns to her hands, feet and abdomen. Deputies said she was talking as she was being transported by Canandaigua Ambulance to a waiting Mercy Flight helicopter for a flight to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

A Rochester Gas and Electric crew also responded to the scene and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration was notified, deputies said.

Reached by telephone Saturday, Les Ganoe, owner of Ganoe Tree Service, declined to comment on the incident.

Home owner Carrie Van Etten said she did not hear or see the accident. Her first indication that something had happened, she said, was when she saw the flashing emergency lights.

Van Etten, who said she knows Les Ganoe, was appeared shaken up at the scene.

"It's sad, it's very sad," she said. "We just moved here a couple weeks ago and we wanted to get the trees cleaned up."

Can you see the problem with this article?

What, that her father was in the boom and she was on the ground and she was electrocuted and she was not? Perhaps because he was insulated in some way and she was not.

Not really...

Scooter wrote:What, that her father was in the boom and she was on the ground and she was electrocuted and she was not? Perhaps because he was insulated in some way and she was not.

Actually, she grounded herself by getting by OUT of the truck and then touching the bare metal.
Her father in the boom probably didn't touch the wires directly and electricity prefers to travel through metal, rather than through people. If he had a rubber mat on the floor of the bucket, that was all he needed, since the charge was heading through the metal for the ground anyway. Electricity pretty much follows a straight line from its source to the ground contact, and if you're not between those points, you won't feel a thing.

Welders at work commonly stand on the very work frames they're welding on, or the metal table because of this universal fact. Yup, I've done it.

Now, Stephanie was fine in the cab of the truck because she was not in contact with metal and a ground, also the seat and the rubber of the tires was protection. When her feet hit the road, she was grounded and then by touching the electrified metal she made herself a conduit.

There's a new technique county linemen use to work on live power lines and that's by using a helicopter. It looks sparky as Hell but its safe because the chopper and the crew are never grounded.

More info;

The principle works similarly to a bird sitting on an electric wire. As long as the linemen aren't connected to the ground, the electricity can't complete the circuit. Oftentimes, it's safer for the lineman to be in the helicopter than an aerial lift because there is no path to the ground. By bonding everything to the air frame and taking that initial arcing surge of about 400 A, nothing will burn up in the helicopter, and it will be safe to use.

Who in the h#ll writes the crop in today's newspapers?




If one is 'electrocuted'.....you're DEAD and in the morgue!

dales wrote:If one is 'electrocuted'.....you're DEAD and in the morgue!

Not necessarily. Depends entirely on whose dictionary (and style manual) one is using:

e·lec·tro·cute / iˈlektrəˌkyoōt/
• v. [tr.] (often be electrocuted) injure or kill someone by electric shock: a man was electrocuted when he switched on the Christmas tree lights.
∎ execute (a convicted criminal) by means of the electric chair.
DERIVATIVES:
e·lec·tro·cu·tion / iˌlektrəˈkyoōshən/ n.

"electrocute." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (July 19, 2010). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-electrocute.html

Emphasis added.

If one is 'electrocuted'.....you're DEAD and in the morgue!

If he puts one of yours in the hospital...

You put one of his in the MORGUE...

THAT'S the Chicago way....

Electrocute = to kill

e·lec·tro·cute (ĭ-lěk'trə-kyōōt')
tr.v. e·lec·tro·cut·ed , e·lec·tro·cut·ing , e·lec·tro·cutes
1.To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.

2.To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.


[ electro- + (exe)cute .]
e·lec'tro·cu'tion (-kyōō'shən) n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

electrocute

"execute by electricity," 1889, Amer.Eng., from electro- (see electric) + (exe)cute; sense involving accidental death is first recorded 1909. Electric chair is also first recorded 1889, which is when the first one was introduced in New York state as a humane alternative to hanging. Related: Electrocuted ; electrocution . Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary


elec·tro·cute definition
Pronunciation: /i-ˈlek-trə-ˌky{uuml}t/
Function: vt
-cut·ed ; , -cut·ing ; 1 : to execute (a criminal) by electricity
2 : to kill by a shock of electricity
elec·tro·cu·tion Pronunciation: /-ˌlek-trə-ˈky{uuml}-shən/
Function: n
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2007 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: elec·tro·cute
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -cut·ed ; -cut·ing
Etymology: electro -, combining form meaning “electric” + exe cute
: to execute (a convicted criminal) by electricity — elec·tro·cu·tion noun

I bin lectrocuted many times.

I'm still livin...

From Oxford (the free on-line version of the OED)

electrocute (e·lec·tro·cute)
Syllabification:OnOff
Pronunciation:/iˈlektrəˌkyo͞ot/
verb
[with object] (often be electrocuted)
injure or kill someone by electric shock:
a man was electrocuted when he switched on the Christmas tree lights
execute (a convicted criminal) by means of the electric chair

Derivatives
electrocution
Pronunciation:/iˌlektrəˈkyo͞oSHən/
noun

Origin:
late 19th century: from electro-, on the pattern of execute

I bin lectrocuted many times.

I'm still livin...

Thanks for sharing that Keld....

It explains so much....











I'm just funnin ya...

Anyone here ever pe'ed on an electric fence?

Only once.