Man saves friend from electrocution - GIF

[Frank S]

electrocution or even just being shocked effects people differently some have a higher tolerance to being shocked but once your muscles contract into a death grip from being shocked there is very little if anything you can do to physically will them to release if the current path is from your feet to one of your hands you can't even will your other arm to knock your hand free. I know from my own experience all I could do was concentrate on trying not to loose my grip with my left hand I couldn't even sense what my other hand was doing. fortunately my muscles in my other arm were causing it to flail around or something until the contact was momentarily broken allowing me to drop the stinger.
An electrician friend of mine got knocked into the main buss of a 480v panel by a gust of wind. he only received an instantaneous shock that knocked him away from the buss. He said for several minutes later the only thing he could do was try and force himself to breathe because breathing was no longer autonomous for him and every fiber of his body hurt for a long while.
being shocked like I was makes me doubly aware of the possibility of it happening again even though I will still climb a metal ladder and weld with an AC machine I make sure there is no possibility of bare skin coming in contact with any metal surfaces especially when changing rods if my hands and gloves might be sweaty and all of my stingers have good insulation and no bare metal to them.

[Crusty]

I was welding outside in a mist one day and I was sitting on a metal frame that was being welded (it was wet from the mist). My gloves were also wet from the mist and when I started to install a new stick in my stinger I got the peewaddy knocked out of me (pants got wet from sitting on the frame, gloves wet too). Luckily I was able to rip the rod from the stinger using my upper body muscles which still worked and break the circuit. I learned three things from this incident: electrons are really fast, don't weld in the rain and a safe appearance doesn't guarantee that something is.

[f800]

Electrocution will certainly cause rhabdomyolysis, which is a disruption of skeletal muscle integrity which would make you feel like you’ve been run over by a train. Of course, the higher the energy load , the more extensive the damage

[marksbug]

I thought they were just trying to get his blood moving in his extreamities..

[Jon]

[Toolmaker51]

Notice; while not such a heavy sign, one tire off the ground on what has to be crane truck. 3 of ground crew drop when metallic sign hits overhead wires; of course, they're manipulating load by hand. Near guarantee could have been averted with taglines AND one observer signaling crane operator. Too many bystanders, no crewleader.

[marksbug]

and 3 polebarrers.

[Duke_of_URL]

Their muscles were still in contraction when gravity pulled them loose, so they dropped like wood logs standing on-end.
I doubt if those knuckleheads standing around have any CPR expertise to save them.

[mwmkravchenko]

Ropes, even gloves! I wonder if any of these guys lived. kind of sad to watch. Could be three men dropping dead because of foolishness.

[Fluffle-Valve]

Did they die?