I have a story to tell about a licensed union electrician I hired for my company to install some three phase motors up in the rafters of our plant. I shut down the shift on Saturday morning so the electrician and his helper could work unhindered. His helper didn't show so I ended up helping with the grunt work of hoisting the motors. All the while we worked, he regaled me with stories of how difficult it had been to get into the union's apprenticeship program, but now he was a MASTER JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN!
After wiring everything up, we went to the circuit breaker box to flip the power on for the circuits. As he worked and talked, the electrician waved his Klein pliers around and accidentally hit a live circuit on the box. I had to hit him with a body block to break him loose. He was only shaken, but I was a wreck. I could just imagine explaining a dead body to the police if it had gone sour. The Klein pliers were welded to the box, requiring a complete replacement of box AND pliers.
It was an interesting report I wrote after that incident.
