A man was injured today when he came into contact with live wires atop a building under construction in West Hollywood, a fire department dispatcher said.
It happened at around 2:40 p.m. at the corner of Melrose Avenue and Westmount Drive, according to Art Marrujo, supervising dispatcher with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The Restoration Hardware building on the southwest corner of Melrose and Westmount is now under construction.
Firefighters removed the man from the roof and took him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, but his condition was not available, Marrujo said.
look it up in the scrabble dictionary, you can find anything there or better yet look it up in your Funk and Wagnell
Henry Scott: I suppose anyone could dig up a dictionary that would say anything, no matter how inaccurate. Here’s the Merriam-Webster (of Noah Webster) definition, which says nothing about “injury”. The word was purposely created to define death by electric shock.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrocute
That’s one of the joys (and challenges) of English 🙂 If we were in France, the French Academy would be defining all of our words for us. Americans even now used the word “decimate” to mean “destroy,” when its meaning was to kill one in ten.
Yes! I’m afraid decimate is too far gone…it will never mean “one in ten” anywhere again.
The worker should have been using proper lockout tagout procedures; testing that power was off and preventing power from being turned on while he was working near wiring, by using a lockout tagout device.
Nobody was “electrocuted”. Electrocution is a word combining “electricity” and “execution”. It is only properly used when an electric shock has killed someone. If the workman survived, he experienced an electric shock. If he is dead, he was electrocuted.
You guys need a proofreader at your paper. You hiring?
e·lec·tro·cute
iˈlektrəˌkyo͞ot/
verb
injure or kill someone by electric shock.
“a man was electrocuted when he switched on the Christmas tree lights”
execute (a convicted criminal) by means of the electric chair.
I hope he will be okay.