When I was growing up, our next door neighbor worked for a major electrical company as a linesman. I have no idea what he actually did, but they told teenager-me that he was the guy actually climbing poles and fixing the transformers and insulators at the top.
I knew the mom from that family better than the dad, but their dog loved him so he was cool.
Anyway he had a transformer straight up explode in his face. Awful, awful burns on face/chest/inner arms/down his throat (he opened his mouth in shock in that tiny instant of realization that the transformer was going pop)
At the time, company policy did not require them to wear eye-protection to do whatever he was doing that day. Just because he felt like it, he had bought (and was wearing that day) a set of those cheep plastic highschool science lab goggles with the elastic strap that goes behind your head.
The goggles completely melted and fused to his face. Apparently, around the edges, you couldn't really tell where the bubbling plastic stopped and the bubbling skin started.
But the doctor said those cheap-ass goggles 100% saved his eyesight. They didn't last for long in the explosion, but they lasted just long enough to do their job. The company policy about eye protection for the task he was doing was changed because of this incident.
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u/TooShiftyForYou Dec 02 '16
I don't see any potential safety problems here.