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I managed a car wash and was good with plumbing, hydraulics, and electricity.
I took off on a Saturday, as I was the best man at my friend's wedding.

We hade a large panel with double doors for all the 440 volt 3-phase. Each circuit, mostly for motor control, had a set of 3 fuses. I kept spare fuses, a continuity tester, and a tube puller in the bottom of the cabinet. You test the fuses by pulling them, or with a voltage tester rated for high voltages. You did that with the power on, but only the maintenance man and I would do it that way, if we didn' want to shut everything off.

Well something failed and the relief manager went to check it out. The cabinet had a lever that would shut the main breaker off when opened. Well he got in there and apparently thought the main switch was still on, so he flipped it, then took the fuse puller and tried pulling the fuses, do able, but not real safe. He either touched the fuse to something or it was just the way he pulled it. It blew up, burning his hand badly, and burning his eyebrows off, with a few more injuries. He also burned up some of the wiring putting us completely down.
He had no business being in there, as he didn't know what he was doing. The crazy thing is that they blamed me. I had given plenty of notice and it wasn't like I was just a guest. My fault for not being there. That was the kind of people I worked for.


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