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Submitted By -Broken Tank Ground
I had a friend once who was an apprentice working with a serviceman and they answered a no lights call. This apprentice climbed the transf. pole and before he safetied off he touched the case of the transformer with one hand and the pole ground wire with the other hand. He wasn't wearing rubber gloves. This was a single bushing pot and the case ground was broken and the x2 didn't have a ground strap on it. He was burned on both hands and the fall to the ground fractured a vertebrae in his back. He had to have treatment for the burns and wore a body cast for awhile. He made a full recovery however.