“This form of wood-burning is highly dangerous and should never be used as fires, injuries, and electrocution can easily occur.”įractal wood burning pairs high-voltage electricity and a chemical solution to etch intricate designs into slabs of wood. “Using electricity safely and properly is vitally important,” said ESFI President Brett Brenner. The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) is warning woodworkers against fractal wood burning. He then apparently fell on his girlfriend, shocking her, who then fell onto her grandmother. An 18-year-old suffered severe electrical burns to his lungs after he lost his balance and fell on a live transformer he had taken out of a microwave.
In May 2020, 35-year-old Wisconsin man Matt Schmidt lost his life while performing the technique for the first time, and another accident took place took place in Utica, Michigan, in which two teenagers and their grandmother were severely injured. in two unrelated accidents in the past two months alone. In July 2020, WoodworkingNetwork reported that in the previous couple of months one person had died and three severe injuries had occurred. In mid-2017, The American Association of Woodturners Safety Committee issued a policy against fractal burning, banning it from AAW events after it took the life of a craftsman in Washington. The Sheriff’s office said that the two victims had died before the fire.įractal burning remains a popular trend on social media platforms including Tik Tok and Youtube, and this trend has caused multiple deaths and severe injuries over the years.Īccording to the American Association of Woodturners, at least 33 people have died as a result of fractal burning since 2016. The Marathon County Sheriff’s Office said that the equipment used for fractal burning caused the electrocutions and started a fire in the garage. Sheriff’s Deputy Chad Billeb said 44-year-old Tanya Rodriguez and 52-year-old James Carolfi were electrocuted while they were using fractal wood burning to create designs on wood. He ruled the cause of death as electrocution.Įlectrocution during fractal burning was ruled the cause of death of two people who were found dead in Wisconsin on April 6, 2022, according to sheriff’s officials. Kiessling said a relative found Sechrist, 43, dead in his home along Route 14 in the Trout Run area. The victim, 43-year-old Joseph Sechrist, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to PennLive.Ĭoroner Charles E. The Lycoming County Coroner's Office was called to the 9000 block of Route 14 Highway in Trout Run on Tuesday around 6 a.m., according to local news reports. It’s not worth it.Fractal burning, the controversial process for using high-voltage electricity to create designs in wood, has claimed the life of another man in Pennsylvania.Ī Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, man was pronounced dead Tuesday morning after an apparent electrocution accident while he burned designs into wood using the fractal design technique. “It’s just a dangerous form of art,” he said. Timothy returned home with a message for others after a couple of surgeries and three weeks in the hospital because no amount of beauty in his artwork could make up for what he nearly lost. According to the Woodworking Network, it’s a controversial process that has caused injuries and even death. That’s when he and his family learned just how dangerous fractal burning is. “They were checking me over and he said yeah we actually see a lot of these accidents,” Timothy said of his doctor. Timothy went to the hospital and was then transported to the University of Utah Burn Center.
“I remember just gasping for air…looking down and seeing the smoke coming off of my gloves that were basically welded to my hands.” “My eyes were rolled back to my head and I wasn’t breathing so they started CPR and got me back,” Timothy said.
Jayden saw his dad collapse, shut off the power and grabbed his grandpa. “He did everything right and saved my life basically,” he said. And he would have remained that way he said, were it not for his 12-year-old son Jaydan. Timothy remembered thinking he was a dead man.
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