My first on-the-job experience with the power of electricity happened back in the 1980s. A young 27-year-old was a regular customer in our rigging shop. Suddenly he went missing. I didn’t see him for months. One day he came in; I was shocked. He had two hooks instead of hands. As we talked he told me he had grabbed a live cable and blew his arms off to the elbows. I guess the good thing was he was alive and coping with his situation. He was working.
By the late ’90s we were building fall protection equipment. An electric company in the south used harnesses made only of nylon. No polyester. Why?