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Submitted By -Drink Of Water
I remember one time working for a power co. It was a different crew than the one I was working on but here's the story.
The crew was 3 or 4 men and they were going to hang a transformer. The truck had a steel boom and they used a nylon strap to hook from the winch line to the pot. The truck driver put the boom into the primary but was unaware of this as was everyone else. Nothing happened and the foreman stopped him with the pot about eye level in order to read and record the serial number and info. on the label. The boom was touching the primary and one lineman decided to get a drink from one of those covey watercans setting on the truck. He later said all he remembered was pushing the button on the can and seeing a blue arc. It knocked him cold and racked his muscles so severely that he had muscle spasms for awhile in the hospt. I think he only spent one nite in the hospt. and was okay the next day.