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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 the first person was injured, taken to the hospital and =
was found to have bleeding gums and damage to heart muscle....
Hillsdale CollegeJim will forgive my cynical view - I have gained some little insight into