newshound wrote:

On 04/09/2019 15:53, GB wrote:
Elfin Safety gone bonkers

The Eon guy came to fit the samrt metter. He put on his work gloves.
Fair enough. He put on his polycarbonate glasses. Still fair enough.

Then, he donned thick elbow length rubber gauntlets, plus a full face
polycarbonate shield. THEN, he removed the main fuse.

Given that he had turned off the consumer unit, this struck me as
excessively cautious, but what do I know?


An old mate of mine did the forensic investigation after an accident
where someone was standing on top of big 11kV cables in a cable tray in
order to fix something to the wall above. This was enough to breach the
cable insulation. It was not a pleasant job.

There was a similar very sad accident in the North Midlands a few years
back where apparently a young and inexperienced manager had been left in
charge of a substation and someone was sent to work on some fairly high
voltage plant which had been switched off, but other cables that crossed
his position had not been switched off. That was what the newspaper
said, anyway, I never saw an official report.

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Roger Hayter