The discovery and development of electricity significantly improved the quality of human life and the general socioeconomic structure. However, improper use of electricity causes accidents resulting in a very severe health problem: electrical burn injury, with its severe and sometimes fatal complications. This is an ever present problem that threatens human life in the developing countries. Previous reports from Turkey showed that electrical burns covered a relatively larger part of burns requiring hospital treatment than in other countries (Haberal, 1985; Haberal et al., 1988, 1989; Panayotou et al., 1991). We have in fact had to treat a large number of patients, making up one of the largest series of electrical burn injuries, in the last 13 years, since the establishment of our burn unit. The present study was carried out in order to investigate the epidemiological pattern of patients suffering from electrical burns admitted to the burn unit of the Hacettepe University Hospital in Ankara.