"its only 120 volts"

[napalmdeath]

My local vintage guitar shop owner is missing a fingertip from a JMP Marshall filter can zap.

That's kinda funny. Usually the best machinists in town are missing fingers. Go figure.

 

[Devin]

Once while replacing a 3 foot long fluorescent bulb in summer heat on a ladder i was sweating my ass off & couldn't line up the pins on the bulb correctly in the sockets so i used my fingers on both hands on the pins to guide.
Because i was dripping with sweat i became part of the circuit.
Those ballast are high voltage.
Was dizzy a bit but seemed okay. Later that night woke up with chest pains in the night.
I don't recommend that either.
I got pinned under a 72' Firebird by 115 VAC from a droplight putting in a transmission.
That hurt cuz i couldn't break contact.
I have no problem hiring qualified people even tho i can do things myself.

Same exact thing happened to me when I was 18 or 19; was changing out the bulb in one of those signs you slide letters in to at a gas station. Shit sucked haha

 

[IndyWS6]

Back in the day I installed a buss system to improve power delivery to racks in our local data center. There were two separate 240v/100A busses with tap boxes that would drop the appropriate twist-lock receptacle to each rack - some 120v, some 240v. I'm not a licensed electrician, but I mounted the busses and built all of the tap boxes. The electrical company that we worked with at the time inspected everything and made the connections to primary power. We fired it up and everything was good. As we moved racks into places, I twisted in the pre-built tap boxes above them and connected the power feeds to the twist locks. No issues. One day, we moved a new rack in and as I started to twist the tap box into place, BOOM. Melted copper rained down the back of my head, neck and back, burning me slightly (along with my shirt) until it pooled on the floor and melted the tile. Turns out the insulation between a pair of the legs was faulty and it was no different than throwing a wrench across the phases when it hit the buss conductors. I was lucky. In the picture, the tap box in the background is what the connectors should look like, although it got smoked as an innocent bystander. Don't fuck with electricity, kids...