Comment on At SpaceX, worker injuries soar — Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds, and on...

Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pretzilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s the appropriate name for an electricity injury?

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The medical term is “Shocked really fucking badly”

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Electrocution. OP is wrong, electrocution doesn’t necessarily requires that the person dies. Any severe injury is also electrocution. The word might come from the method of executing dead penalties on convicts but it’s not a hard definition.

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  • tankplanker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would guess Alan electric shock? Which doesn’t sound as bad as it should, but it should also include the level of burns incurred and if they suffered cardiac arrest or similar.

    For example, the employee suffered electric shock from the unsecured 480v power line resulting in second degree burns to their arms and back and were resuscitated after suffering cardiac arrest.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You just described electrocution with way too many words.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suppose “shocked” or “received electrical burns”?

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• beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ll be that person too: word meanings change, journalists aren’t perfect, and “electrocution” likely had fewer characters than a suitable alternative

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