Electrocution in chicken shop

As per the news in Deccan Chronicle on 08.11.2011, a chicken shop owner died of electrocution while trying to retrieve dressed chicken from a chicken dressing machine. This may be due to poor wiring, improper or no earthing, lack of ELCB for the machine, no rubber mat in front of the machine, not using proper PPE.
The incident reminds that safety is required everywhere, not restricted to factories alone.

Electrocution during cleaning of welding machine

In an incident reported in a local news paper, a person died of electrocution while cleaning the welding machine in the morning. This implies damaged cables and improper/no earthing to the machine. Possibly the power supply was not switched off the previous day and in the same condition, the person would have carried out cleaning of the machine.
It is common to see use of structural columns as return lines and no earthing will be available neither for the machine nor the job on which welding will be done. Sometimes when proper length of cable is not available, people use rods or sheets or similar metal pieces as return lines. It is difficult to ensure safety in unorganized sector and even in organized sectors when the work is outsourced.

Electrocution

A person died due to electrocution, as reported in a news paper. He received electric shock when he tried to cross a water pool and held nearby signboard rod for support. Due to rain, the signboard is wet. It is not clear why earth fault did not cut off power supply when current was passing through pipe and the water pool below.