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- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
At SpaceX, worker injuries soar — Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds, and on…::Reuters documented more than 600 workplace injuries at SpaceX. Employees say they’re paying the price for Elon Musk’s push to reach Mars at breakneck speed.
I’m gonna be that guy.
Electrocution kills you. Its in the name. I assume based on context they didn’t die.
What’s the appropriate name for an electricity injury?
The medical term is “Shocked really fucking badly”
I would guess an electric shock? Which doesn’t sound as bad as it should, but it should also include the level of burns incurred and if they suffered cardiac arrest or similar.
For example, the employee suffered electric shock from the unsecured 480v power line resulting in second degree burns to their arms and back and were resuscitated after suffering cardiac arrest.
You just described electrocution with way too many words.
I suppose “shocked” or “received electrical burns”?
Electrocution. OP is wrong, electrocution doesn’t necessarily requires that the person dies. Any severe injury by electric shock is also electrocution. The word might come from the method of executing dead penalties on convicts but it’s not a hard definition.
I’ll be that person too: word meanings change, journalists aren’t perfect, and “electrocution” likely had fewer characters than a suitable alternative