Deaths Due to Electrocution-A Retrospective Study

Abstract

Retrospective analysis of deaths because of electric shock from the medico-legal death records our college i.e. J.N.M.C., A.M.U., Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Most of the deaths were of men having the age in between 11–50 years. All deaths were inadvertent and most part of them were during the time of monsoon as compared to the deaths in western countries where, baths, warmers or hair dryers were the source of electric shocks. The death rate reported because of electric shock was 0.34 per lakhs (100000) of the population in the present study as against the figures of 0.94 and 0.14 from Bulgaria and Canada respectively. A large portion of the deaths were either prompt or quick. It implies that individuals living at home did not have basic knowledge of dangers of electric shock. In this way mindfulness about utilization of good quality electric machines is the need of great importance.