OK, What happened wassssssss. Putting in a 200A dis board. Had arrived on site with the apprentice at 5.30am and immediately greeted by a night shift maintenance spark with the question "how long will you be, i want to go home". Told him it was going to be about 3 hours but i had been told that all was OK by the owner as you would have some work to do whilst the supply was off. He stomps off complaining. Owner turns up and we chat for a couple of minutes and the spark is mentioned. He says he will have a word. Goes into his office and fills in a signs a method statement that i had prepared and a permit to work that he had prepared (apprentice also signs and makes himself feel important). He issues me a key for the electric room. I then brief the apprentice as this is his first time for this type of work and issue him with a new padlock for the multi lock off with a warning that if he looses the key i will make him walk home.
Disconnect and lock of supply with 2 padlocks.
So all good. Apprentice mounting new board whilst i open bus bar chamber, drill and tap and connect SWA. Call in apprentice and show him what i have done and how. He pleads with me to let him gland the other end but i say no then realize that i have 2 meters extra so i would let him have a go on the end and if it is OK he can gland into the dis board. He makes a complete pigs ear of it, i have a good laugh and take a picture and explain where he went wrong. I then gland and start connecting. Now i have a odd habit of always terminating Grey first then black then brown. I had terminated Grey and black but had only placed the brown cable in the mains isolator and the apprentice asks a question so i stop and whilst explaining the night shift spark comes in and demands to know how long i will be. Thinks to myself screw you matey and tells him we are off for a cuppa. He stomps off. Spend another 10 Min's explaining bits to the apprentice, he asks a lot of questions. Tells him i will just tighten this last terminal and we will get a cuppa. Picks up ratchet , extension and Allen key socket, goes to tighten Allen screw and the next thing i know i am waking up in an ambulance half naked with a blubbering apprentice by my side. (started to worry a bit now)
Turns out the maintenance spark has a spare key for the electric room (which he should not have), lets himself in and thinking we have gone for a cuppa decides to bend the lock off tabs and re-energies to check his work, de-energies and bend lock off tabs back and then go home.
Sorry Mrs Doc explained this bit wrong.
Throw me 12 feet across a room into a plasterboard wall, left shoulder hit one of the studs and was dislocated, large burn all the way across my left hand which "cooked" the flesh in my palm, thats why i had to have the op to cut out the damaged flesh and it also damaged the nerve. Apparently when the ambulance got there my heart was in fibrillation and i had to be jumped started to get it running at 50Hz again. Concussion from hitting head on wall and a few bumps and grazes.
Then a few days in hospital with Mrs Doc blubbering by my side. Did not even get a bed bath.
Have been interviewed by police and HSE. It has been reported to RIDDOR. The spark has been arrested and bailed and i found out this morning he was dismissed. The only one i feel sorry for is the owner of the company. Even though we followed all the rules he will end up being prosecuted.
But i get 3 months of work
Happy days.
