2. Nature and scale of electrical accidents

Electrification refers to any electrical accident, whether fatal or not. It can take the form of a simple concussion, which may have no effect, or, on the contrary, a state of ventricular fibrillation, leading to death.

Electrocution is a fatal accident caused by electricity.

Ventricular fibrillation, which may follow electrification, is a transient state of the organism, known as "apparent death", corresponding to an anarchic rhythm of the heart's functioning under the effect of the passage of a low-intensity electric current (of the order of a few tens of milliamperes)...