Quote Originally Posted by roughkype View Post
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I'm just starting my electrical career (4 years in at age 46). Scary stories by you. Sorry to hear of the trouble you had, man.
I've had all manner of burns, bruises, breaks etc but the one I mentioned happened when I was working live in a switchboard that someone else built. Some rubbish fell out of the duct work (which I've always been pedantic about cleaning out for this reason) and shorted across 3 phase, 415v mains about 18 inches from my face. since the 1000A breaker was only a couple of yards from me and the main supply transformer only about 20 yards from that there was a reasonable amount of fault current. The flash took off the beard on the right side of my face, the surface off both eyes, turned the skin on the back of my right hand into crispy little bits except for a flap on my ring finger that melted and melted my eyelashes together into clumps. I was blind for about five minutes afterwards. It was ... not my finest hour.