The stories you hear second hand when you work with ex Telstra people.....

#1 Painter was freshing up the walls in a telephone exchange. Placed his
paint can on the convienient metal busbars, and the paint flash boiled and
left a pretty pattern on the wall.

#2 Digging trenches for comms lines on campus, dug too deep, and pulled up
the ring main, big flash and sustained arc. By the time the power was shut
off the digger was welded solid.

#3 Contractors opened up the the access doors on one of those ground mounted
street transformers in darwin. whatever they touched started an arc, so they
steped back and rang for help. Neither was equipped with gloves or any other
safety equipment.

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