Video 1 Transcript
Personally, I haven't had an electrical shock over 120 volts, which is very fortunate. In my career, some people have been shocked by 277 or 480, and that could be severe. You know, it could kill people easily. And so, because I've been lucky to not have very much of a history with shock, just a couple experiences with shock. I've normally been shocked in an outlet or switch where a circuit was on and I thought it was off. So that's something that if you're an electrician and you're going into electrical careers, that you would want to really pay attention to. And then make a tester that you can wear in your pocket. It's called a tick tracer. And so, if you pay attention and test the circuit before you use it, and then verify that there's no power on the circuit before you work on it. Accidents happen. And I just was talking to a guy at work today and his son, who's also an electrician, was standing next to another electrician. They just leaned on a wire. And then for whatever reason, the wire wasn't connected tight and it pulled out of its connection point and moved over to another phase, which is a direct short. And it caused an arc flash and an arc blast. The force of the blast pushed him out and he got injured by a sprinkler. There wasn't a bad arc flash, which is the burn. So he didn't have much of injuries from that. But because the arc blast had pushed him so hard, it cut his face. He had to have stitches, that kind of thing. And so, there's a danger there and it's substantial. So, when working with electrical, if you get in a trade to work with electrical, there's so many people that will take the electrical shock, arc flash, arc blast very seriously. And it's for this reason, because people have gotten really hurt from them. So, if you were to go into the electrical trades, the most important thing to know is, do proper lockout. Know where the energy is. Know that the circuit's dead that you're working on. And if you have to work on a live circuit, there's precautions to take with fire suits, helmets, shields, gloves, all that kind of stuff. It's in NFPA 70E.