Many people take electricity for granted and their complacency can come back to zap them, sometimes fatally so. Here are seven statistics relating to electrical safety.

1. Electrical hazards cause more than 300 deaths and 4,000 injuries in workplaces across the US every year. (Electrical Safety Foundation International)
2. As little as 100 milliamps of current passing across the chest for a couple of seconds can put the heart into a fatal rhythm. (Ohio State University)
3. The degree of injury from an electrical shock depends on three things: The part of your body that receives the current; the duration of the shock; […]

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