Lesson learned the hard way. · Lineman Bull$hit

Lesson learned the hard way.

I have read several of these posts on here about everyone seeing someone get burnt or witnessing a fatality at work. Seeing it is something that we all may have to deal with one day and it’s very unfortunate that after all the training we go through that it still happens on a daily basis. Unfortunately I am someone that has gone through all that same training as you all but yet I had a flash last year that burnt 12% of my body during hurricane Hellene. Luckily it was not a contact and just a severe flash. The entire right side of my chest and back along with my right arm had second degree burns. I was wearing my rudder gloves and had box grounds installed but someone had pulled our master grounds without confining we were down and in the clear and heated the line up. How the box ground didn’t kick it back out is still a mystery to me. Fortunately I had an awesome crew and one of the JL’s jumped on the truck and boomed me down and got me out of the bucket by that time I could walk. I had lifelighted to the burn unit in Augusta Georgia and woke up in the hospital bed with my wife already there and covered in bandages. How my face didn’t have any burns on it was just luck I suppose. I have sense returned back to work and pay a lot more attention to everyone and everything around me I guess it was a lesson learned the hard way. I will never wish that upon anyone and pray that everyone I tell this story to takes away from it that it is a real danger in our trade. Everyone always says to check all your boxes but you can’t control other people actions so always be your brothers keeper.

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