Just finished installing a nice new earth system, new copper stake into the ground, copper strap from the stake up to a solid copper termination block on the wall in the equipment room, each equipment rack tied back to the central point earth block. I did not have a ladder handy, so I stood on an office chair (on wheels), pushed open a ceiling tile, reached up through to pull some audio cables, with my left hand sitting on a bolt on the equipment rack (to steady myself) I grabbed onto a metal ceiling dropper and bam, 240V AC into my right hand, across my chest and heart and out through my left hand to my nice new earthed rack. I was pulled on and stuck there for 5 - 10 seconds until somehow my chair rolled out from under my feet and my body weight pulled me off. I hit the floor like a sack of potatoes.
The experience was horrid, I felt like I was physically shaking inside for the next 12 hours. A doctor checked me and pronounced me, alive. Thank god for poor work health safety practises, standing on a office chair is sometimes the right thing!
Whilst being electrocuted, I was sure I was screaming. My colleague standing only feet away, heard nothing and didn't see anything happening to me, until I fell to the floor. After isolating power, my colleague discovered a live lighting wire have fallen out of a light fitting and was sitting on the metal ceiling grid.
I am still here, just
