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I missed that. Still nasty!You say you made contact with the metal cabinet and a busbar, if so the shock would have been to earth.
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I missed that. Still nasty!You say you made contact with the metal cabinet and a busbar, if so the shock would have been to earth.
The only reason you are not seriously damaged or dead is that you only received a 230volt single phase live to earth shock if you had a 415-volt encounter between 2 phases you would have been cooked and the marrow within your bones would be destroyed a life-changing experience you must report this incident! Ihope you are ok you don't need wishing good luck as you have plenty of that already not many sparks get away as lightly as you haveHi,
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. I do have another account on here which I would imagine is not allowed by admins - this account will be deleted after this thread, I only made it as I do not want to be identified. If this is not ok please let me know.
I am an apprentice working for a largish electrical/mechanical firm.
We do large industrial jobs, schools, hospitals etc.
Working on a panel under supervision of the electrical supervisor/ following instructions of the supervisor we were lashing in temporary cables to feed a new panel, while we wait for the DNO to swap the mains from old to new.
We were pulling in single core 300mm2 cables to be paralleled (2 for each phase - 8in total)
My boss shut the power off and work began.
Shortly after getting the third cable in (2 had been done by us already) my arm accident lay touched the metal casing of the panel while my hand touched the busbars to feed the cable in.
Apparently this was still live. It threw me to the ground and felt like I was going to have a heart attack. Upon testing the phases these were all still live, even though my boss seemed to think he turned it off (he didn’t actually test, just switched it off and work commenced) I went home early because of this under my bosses instruction and my boss said to anyone who asked “he’s not feeling very well so he’s gone home”.
This man’s mistake nearly cost me my life - he is careless, evidenced by not only the above but other examples too. He rushes and makes mistakes, this is not who I would like to be taught from.
I am just wondering if anyone has had to deal with a situation like this before and what steps did you take going forward?
I do not want to work under this man but feel I don’t have a choice - I am in a household with one other including me. I am the only one working and cannot stop work as bills, rent etc still need to be paid regardless.
But I do genuinely feel if I continue working under this man something similar will happen to me again - and if not me someone else.
Thank you in advance for any replies and apologies it’s so long winded.
Good luck with A+E and also with your employer there Is no place in this industry for incompetent people like him.Very lucky. Keep us posted with what happens.
YOu received a bad electric shock ... Thank God you where Not "Electrocuted " as you would not be able to post due to either been dead or really messed up in A&E . Take legal advice . I was in a commercial property 30 years ago and a Father of a man who was Terribly Electrocuted was the first on scene attending to his son . I did not get to see much and honestly did not want to . He was really messy
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