Electric shock

[Hobsoni]

What's the worst electric shock you have received?

 

[cogsey133]

415v it was a real belter i can assure you! It was all down to a colour blind apprentice i once had!

 

[sparks1973]

i`v had a few....
one that shook me was the time that someone reinstated supply (FCU) to some points in a conservatory...
ouch...

 

[Hobsoni]

415v it was a real belter i can assure you! It was all down to a colour blind apprentice i once had!

thats nuts! lol

Did you know he was colour blind before this??

 

[cogsey133]

thats nuts! lol

Did you know he was colour blind before this??

No idea mate....he ended up being taken off the tools and made a manager

 

[Hobsoni]

So both of your shocks were through fault of someone else.

Thats always a good sign...........if you get where i'm coming from.



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B**tard.

i'm sure you shook the life out of him after thow!

 

[Floody]

I licked a battery once

 

[cogsey133]

So both of your shocks were through fault of someone else.

Thats always a good sign...........if you get where i'm coming from.



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B**tard.

i'm sure you shook the life out of him after thow!

A lot of people were to blame mate including myself! At the end of the day it doesn't matter what year he was in he was under my supervision so i was partly to blame. he was partly to blame as i went over everything in great detail so if he was unsure he should have asked. my manager was partly to blame for not informing me of his colour blindness and any potential dangers he may pose.

No i didn't shake the life out of him....i did however break his nose!

 

[ayjay]

ive had a few "nips" in my working life but due to correct teaching by older sparks during my apprentiship ive never had a prob
ive worked with a few younger sparkys that have had serious shocks
i subbyed on a balfour-beatty job, one guy was killed the other seriously injured by flash burns(they were testing the polarity at the back of the panels using a copper cable link to test polarity,but the bars were energised)
they(balfour b) had stringent safey rules- didn,t work did they

 

[Hobsoni]

ive had a few "nips" in my working life but due to correct teaching by older sparks during my apprentiship ive never had a prob
ive worked with a few young sparkys that have had serious shocks
i subbied on a balfour-beatty job, one guy was killed the other seriously injured by flash burns(3phase)
they had stringent safey rules- didn,t work did it

It's stories like this that really re-affirm the dangers of working with electricity. Technically, if everyone follows the lock-out/tag-out, proving and reproving of voltage testers etc etc...........no one should really suffer a shock.

I had one whilst doing a crimp connection (clearly my fault) switched the consumer off by the main switch............within a few minutes of starting the crimp I touched line with one finger.....and cpc with the other hand..............could I let go, could i f**k. It was on a first floor landing, i managed to stand up and throw myself over the banisters down the stairs to release myself.

Turns out the sockets were fed from the ingoing side of the main iso on the DB. Oh well, only myself to blame.

 

[Floody]

i managed to stand up and throw myself over the banisters down the stairs to release myself

Jesus, how badly will a normal household shock be then? Ive never had one, mainly because ive never done any work yet which involves making stuff dead. Im usually involved with containment and cable pulling.

 

[Hobsoni]

Jesus, how badly will a normal household shock be then? Ive never had one, mainly because ive never done any work yet which involves making stuff dead. Im usually involved with containment and cable pulling.[/QUOTE]

it only takes 50mA to kill someone, hence all RCD's rated for shock protection are 30mA. I'm sure there are a few purists here who will say less than 50mA in the right (or wrong) conditions will kill you.

You think of your lights fused at 6amps.................very small load supplied circuit compared with the rest of a household installation..............but very vast in comparison to what can end you.

 

[sparks1973]

Jesus, how badly will a normal household shock be then? Ive never had one, mainly because ive never done any work yet which involves making stuff dead. Im usually involved with containment and cable pulling.

it only takes 50mA to kill someone, hence all RCD's rated for shock protection are 30mA. I'm sure there are a few purists here who will say less than 50mA in the right (or wrong) conditions will kill you.

You think of your lights fused at 6amps.................very small load supplied circuit compared with the rest of a household installation..............but very vast in comparison to what can end you.[/QUOTE]
depends on what the fault current is available.....at that particular point in the install....
various factors will decide this....such as distance from origin...and what potential you represented to it...

 

[clematis432]

415V. Happened approx.40yrs ago when I was about the " I,ll never get a shock, because I,m too clever age" Apart from the shock, the sensation I got was as if I was getting drawn into the control panel. But a very very good lesson to me and I still wonder to this day how I,m still here !
Makes you wonder sometimes about what amount of current/volts/power/ and for what length of time it goes through your body IS required to be fatal. The theory and practice don,t always match. NOBODY can be precise about this.

 

[Hobsoni]

Clematis432

That sounds terrifying, balls to that!

How did you mange to get out of that one?