All Arced up...

[Niggadore]

I can hardly see what i'm typing...
Today at work i was changing over an anderson plug on a 48 volt, 500 amp forklift battery..
Screwdriver accidentally slipped and slid on both contacts and arced like all hell.

Next thing i know i'm stumbling around completly oblivious to what just happened, a fu**ing nasty shock and half blind...
Just got back from the hospital then and i'm in utter pain and i can barly see...
Bloody lucky i was
4 weeks into my apprenticeship and i've already fu**d up....
great...

[Garth]

that has got to be one of the best starts to any aprenticeship i have heard of yet.

[vnv8driver]

first day of my apprenticeship at 15 and i was asked to move some panels around, first one i picked up slid and cut my hand, 5 stitches later i was keen as to get back to work, never did that again!!

Eye pain hurts doesnt it?? a bit more than people think i suffer from an eye disease called keratoconous and recenlt had cornea grafts becasue they warped and thinned out of shape, i know how grief and pain there is, might hurt now but itll get better soon.

[vnv8driver]

come to think of it must of been a bloody long screwdriver!

[Scooter79]

You're not doing too bad. The school I teach at, some year 12's are doing work placement. One big leb who's basically a thug is doing carpentry. A couple of weeks ago he got a splinter and he was in tears crying saying he's dying and needed an ambulance. Word got back to his teachers and we all had a good laugh.

[TVR-190]

You're not doing too bad. The school I teach at, some year 12's are doing work placement. One big leb who's basically a thug is doing carpentry. A couple of weeks ago he got a splinter and he was in tears crying saying he's dying and needed an ambulance. Word got back to his teachers and we all had a good laugh.

Did he call all his cousins to come and bash up the plank of wood

[minux]

Did he call all his cousins to come and bash up the plank of wood

Theres a jihad out on that plank as we speak. Damned infidels.

[vnv8driver]

Did he call all his cousins to come and bash up the plank of wood

Dont make me laugh this early troy!

[STEALTHY™]

I can top that.

3rd day starting my first full time job (just left school), managed to slice my tendon on my little finger, which rendered me on work cover for a year. Was coincidently my 18th birthday that it happened.

Got to spend the night in the Juvenille ward (= no sleep)

[pow3rslave]

I can hardly see what i'm typing...
Today at work i was changing over an anderson plug on a 48 volt, 500 amp forklift battery..
Screwdriver accidentally slipped and slid on both contacts and arced like all hell.

Next thing i know i'm stumbling around completly oblivious to what just happened, a fu**ing nasty shock and half blind...
Just got back from the hospital then and i'm in utter pain and i can barly see...
Bloody lucky i was
4 weeks into my apprenticeship and i've already fu**d up....
great...

jeez, scary, was it an insulated screwdriver?
good to hear your not seriously hurt, but i gotta ask, did you poop?

[HoZy]

i woulda pooped

[Astranomical]

OUCH!!!!!!!!

I'm curious though - when working on gear like that, wouldn't you be made to use insulated tools due to OH&S regulations or whatever? Glad to hear you (mostly) survived.

[coolvxss]

jeez, scary, was it an insulated screwdriver?
good to hear your not seriously hurt, but i gotta ask, did you poop?

If it was insulated that wouldnt have happened. Im an apprentice sparky, and couple weeks ago, we had to put a new 3 phase breaker in a switch board. before you put the breaker in, you have to get these little insulation dick things off. The guy i was working with was getting them off, when he crossed two phases with his pliers. Now that was a loud bang. He has bad burns all up his arms, and his whole face is burnt. And he couldnt open his eyes for ages. Scary stuff.

[TVR-190]

MMk important OH&S notice here:

metal + electricity = bad

[pow3rslave]

what's the link between the eyes and electrocution?

[vnv8driver]

its the same as welders flash. irritation, burns and tearing

[vnv8driver]

for anyone who hasnt had a flash before or had eye problems, it feels like sand being poured onto your eye, the gritty, burning irritating feeling stops you dead in your tracks and your eyes get forced shut.Theres been times where i havent been able to physically open my eyes for 2 days straight because of photophobia, irritation and tearing.

[coolvxss]

what's the link between the eyes and electrocution?

Yeah its just the flash that stuffs your eyes. And if your electrocuted you dont have to worry about your eyes because your dead haha.

[Niggadore]

It was an electric forklift battery and i was just changing the plug over so the contacts are about 4 centermeters apart - short screw driver
Yeh i should have used an insulated screw driver, i just wasn't thinking..
I didn't poop but i was damn close =D
Yeh, my eyes are still very sore, but it's barable now, i just gotta stop rubbing my eyes...
The flash i got was the same as welders flash, it's just a massave ray of ultra violet light that litterally burns the cornia of the eyes.
I got a fair shock but i couldn't have dies as theres wasn't enough voltage to carry the massave current.
cheers guys

[trentvy]

It was an electric forklift battery and i was just changing the plug over so the contacts are about 4 centermeters apart - short screw driver
Yeh i should have used an insulated screw driver, i just wasn't thinking..
I didn't poop but i was damn close =D
Yeh, my eyes are still very sore, but it's barable now, i just gotta stop rubbing my eyes...
The flash i got was the same as welders flash, it's just a massave ray of ultra violet light that litterally burns the cornia of the eyes.
I got a fair shock but i couldn't have dies as theres wasn't enough voltage to carry the massave current.
cheers guys

Im doing a pre ap and heard that about 30 ma is enough kill you and with that being said. get me an apprenticeship!!!!

[Joe Peeps]

some nasty accidents here, especially that phase 3 thats some serious ****! hope your up to snuff soon nigs' you'll be back on the forklifts in no time. i gave myself a nice little jolt back in year 8 (two paper clips in a socket, a small wager - these things happen).

vnv8driver - keratoconus is a real mother****er; i dread the day glasses arent good enough - tried the hard contacts which i couldnt stand... not good hope your prognosis after the grafts is good

peace

[azzfox]

i gave myself a nice little jolt back in year 8 (two paper clips in a socket, a small wager - these things happen).

Simlar things happened at my old school, though tin foil was used, and no one got shocked . Everyone got a fright when all the power in the room suddenly went off.

[Cobez]

Hey mate, everyone i know did that kinda stuff through their mechanic apprentiships. It's all apart of learning, if you never stuffed up and did everything so pedantic and over cautious, there would be something wrong.

It's all apart of the learning boat mate. A mate of mine was working on a van and did the same thing you did but with a shifter.

[andyman]

i did that by dropping 50+ kgs of steel on my foot,

working in rain + Hydraulic oil on hands = droping of large heavy items onto foot

needless to say the job we where doing was a month long refit and the afternoon after work we had a bbq to celebrate the completion of it, by the time we got back the toe had stoped hurting by then so i downed 5 sausage sangas and 2 drinks drove home picked up mum and went to hospital haha

i got two days off for it,

[Cobez]

HOLY CRAP!!! ^^^^^^


I tipped a forklift on it's side LOL!! Un-even steep hill forky tipped, i leant the opposite way as taught and boom.