Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue: 3

When a playground turned into a graveyard

  • Author:
  • Pankaj Verma1, Pradeep Kumar Mishra2,, Abhishek Varun3, Manish Nigam4, Jitendra S Tomar1
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 359 to 362

1Asst. Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sri Aurobindo Medical College & Post Graduate Institute, Indore

2Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sri Aurobindo Medical College & Post Graduate Institute, Indore

3PG JR 3rd Year, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sri Aurobindo Medical College & Post Graduate Institute, Indore

4Professor & Head, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sri Aurobindo Medical College & Post Graduate Institute, Indore

*Corresponding Author: Email: pradeep_sus1074@yahoo.com.

Online published on 15 December, 2018.

Abstract

Electrocution is mostly an occupation related injury. Deaths due to electrocution in adults occur at work places, while in children, such incidents occur mostly at home. The present case is of a 15 year male child who was playing football in a playground. A high tension wire fell over him and entangled his anterior neck and ended in death. Burns were so severe that all the anterior neck structures, up to cervical vertebra, were exposed. Such an un-believable incidence would have never happened if our government would have made good plans for the establishment of housing areas that are free from high tension wires which are hanging over our heads, all the time. Poorly planned and improperly maintained high tension lines are responsible of such kind of incidences.

Keywords

Electrocution, High tension, Playground