Electrician struck by arc flash to the face - GIF

Electrician struck by arc flash to the face.

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Electrician working on live wire - GIF
Electricians pulling wires through building - GIF

Always unplug the Christmas lights before changing a bulb!

I thought you were supposed to do that as fast as possible? Wasn't he racking that?

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Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker

I thought you were supposed to do that as fast as possible? Wasn't he racking that?

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hard to tell what he was doing - my first thought was he was pushing a cover plate backwards into the cable entry zone - so perhaps something dislodged and contacted a conductor, or bus bar?