Re: Electrostatic Injuries

["David T. Marx" <dtmarx@SIU.EDU>]

Date sent:              Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:17:06 -0500
From:                   Jim Peters <jim.peters@AC.HILLSDALE.EDU>
Subject:                [PHYS-L] Electrostatic Injuries

> I received a phone call today from a local industry asking if it was possible for a person to receive an injury from electrostatics.  It seems that, on a production line, workers peal labels off of a paper strip and play around with the electrostatics in the process.  Just as one person reached
to touch a grounded control lever with one hand, another person touched the first person's other arm giving the first person an electrostatic shock which apparently traveled through the chest.  I was then told that Jim Peters
> Hillsdale College

Jim,
        I would simply suggest that they ground each worker.  This
would prevent those annoying "shocks."

with regards,
David