RECEIVED 10,000 VOLTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 37, 13 February 1926, Page 18

RECEIVED 10,000 VOLTS.

] LIVES TO TELL THE TALE. MAN'S AMAZING EXPERIENCE. (TroEa Our Own Correspondent-) SYDNEY, February 5. To receive an electric shock of 10,030 • volts, he thrown four feet against an ] iron door with sufficient force to bend ji, drop 14 feet into a pit, and then be I uninjured, was the amazing experience of an electrician's labourer at the City Council's electric sub-station at Marrickville, on Tuesday. Roy Lynch* 31, cf Belmore Road, Coogee, was the victim of this astounding series of adventures, and that he lives to tell the taJe is at once a miracle jto himself and a subject for argument ]by expertsLynch and three mates had been workj ing for some days and were cleaning up j prior to departure from the sub-station. He was on a plank, ten feet above the floor, cleaning an oil switch. By some means his right hand came into" contact with the bus bars behind j the switch. which were carrying a euri rent of 10,000 volts. iThe fuses were blown immediately, and a vivid flash was followed by an explosion. The sub-station was filled with thick !' smoke, and Lynch's mates missed him from his plank. Subsequently they discovered that the fore* of the blast hurled him back from the plank, dashed him against an iron door four feet away, and then dropped ] him 14 feet into the pit below the floor level. When the smoke cleared they were I amazed to find him still conscious in the i pit, without any bones broken. He was hurried to the hospital in an ' ambulance, where he was treated for | shock and barns to the right hand. He 1 left the hospital apparently little- the j worse for his experience.