stupid accidents and near misses

[musicmaster050]

Doing a 4mm 3 core swa joing the other day on a building site in scotland so i went to the consumer unit turned off the mcb and removed the neutral thinking all was well closed over the dis box and snapped the lock shut so i goes back to where the joint was going in the cable i start to strip one end of the swa then proceeded to cut the cable to make off the lenth of the extension when bang my bacho hacksaw had a massive gapeing hole straight thou the blade

went back the cumsumer unit and the site manager had given the key to sumbody else how had turned the mcb back on was far from happy had very stearn words with them both

but in the future i will always now lock off all mcbs

lesson learnt

 

[Spudnik]

Doing a 4mm 3 core swa joing the other day on a building site in scotland so i went to the consumer unit turned off the mcb and removed the neutral thinking all was well closed over the dis box and snapped the lock shut so i goes back to where the joint was going in the cable i start to strip one end of the swa then proceeded to cut the cable to make off the lenth of the extension when bang my bacho hacksaw had a massive gapeing hole straight thou the blade

went back the cumsumer unit and the site manager had given the key to sumbody else how had turned the mcb back on was far from happy had very stearn words with them both

but in the future i will always now lock off all mcbs

lesson learnt

Lucky there bud.

Lock off and keep the key with you. You should know that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know of an electrician down my way that had near enough the same thing happen to him.

He is now resting in peace.

 

[musicmaster050]

jesus sorry to hear that jason all the stuff i do is temp cctv alarms access and in normal circumstances nobody touches the temp boards

but i quess what is normal

i have learnt my lesson

 

[scotsparky]

Nothing that serious but Got the palm of my hadn caught in a pair of Lazy Tongs while pop riviting a hasp to a d.b. Th blood Blister was about an inch long. By "Jings" it hurt.

 

[DPG]

never use a couple of old cds as a flexible backing for a sanding disc in an angle grinder no matter how flexible they seem. Managed to get shattered debris 40 ft away. lucky had goggles on! stupid! daz