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Submitted By -The Last Three Elbows
I'm a east coast lineman on a underground crew. We just pulled in a project we had been working on for weeks. We have 7200kva conductor.. so we just got done making 50 underground 1/0 elbows up and we were ready to start making the last three elbows up to make to project hot. We were ready to make the last three up and we were going to throw one phase on at a time to check the phasing. It was B or C phase and check the transformers.. The foreman went to check them when I was going to make the other elbow up that would be A phase. We started on the elbow when we got just about through when the foreman came back and said that the phasing was wrong in a switch, we did not have our rubber goods on because we thought it was safe... I then realized that it could of back fed and could of made the wire we were working on to be hot. Scared the shit out of me when I findly realized it. Just make sure that you were your rubber goods when working on underground primary because I was lucky. God was looking out for me this time. Undergound primary will get you if your not careful.... I knew better, Just in a hurry