Open AccessForensic Investigation of Electrostatic Shock Injury
Author(s) -
Louis I. Rothschild
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of the national academy of forensic engineers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2379-3252
pISSN - 2379-3244
DOI - 10.51501/jotnafe.v4i2.419
Subject(s) - amputation , shock (circulatory) , sort , forensic engineering , medicine , psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , surgery , computer science , engineering , information retrieval
This investigation, undertaken in 1983, involved the occurrence of an injury of a sort hitherto unreported in the technical journals. However, forensic investigation of a personal injurys causations requires a complete and open-minded determination of the circumstances of the occurrence. It can be equally as important to eliminate what did not happen as well as to reconstruct with validity how the injury took place. Thereupon, the causations of the occurrence can be identified. The injury resulted in the amputation of part of the first joint of the subjects left index finger and was followed by tissue grafts and by retarded healing and hyper sensitization of the entire hand. As an electrical systems engineer, the writer was engaged by the subjects attorney to investigate the occurrence of the injury believed to have been caused electrically.