[blackdog]

I work on 4160 volt systems and down. I have to wear a space suit for the arc flash risks. Racking in and out switchgear I have experienced two blasts in my lifetime. Unprotected on live circuits, you'll never know what hit you.

In my control room I have an area of concrete floor where it is all black with the outline of two shoes in regular color concrete. That is all that was left from an accident about 4 years ago.

Darwin usually gets these people.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Most likely he was taking the easy to get to stuff like copper grounding cables. We had to keep a close eye on such cables and connections in the power plants I worked at.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I was working on a boiler many years ago when the electrician in another part of the room jumped a couple of 480 volt busbars with his fishtape. FLASH BOOM! The whole room lit up like the sun for a moment. He was uninjured, too! I think his fishtape just vaporized.

[Oatka]

In my control room I have an area of concrete floor where it is all black with the outline of two shoes in regular color concrete. That is all that was left from an accident about 4 years ago.

Years ago, I read of an accident in a smokeless gunpowder factory where all that was left was that outline. No one would work at that station because they had to stand where that unfortunate guy stood. The company finally shifted the station two feet (no pun intended) to the right.