I had an incident occur with my first wedding band...
My wife and I were building a house. Well, really it was me, my dad, my uncle, and a couple family friends building the house with a few subcontractors doing the few things we either couldn't or didn't want to do. Anyway, the key part of this story is that I wired the house.
Side note... I basically don't feel a 120v current. I feel it but it doesn't hurt; it's a bit of a tingle, like when your arm or leg starts to fall asleep. (I've never tested higher voltage and try not to retest 120v if I can help it.)
So, anyway, I was wiring in the fixtures in the master bath - with the breaker off, of course. Meanwhile, my mom was helping out by cleaning up, sweeping the kitchen floor. Since the walls weren't finished, the switches were hanging outside the boxes. Well, my mom accidentally hit one of the kitchen switches with the broom, causing it to make contact with the switch next to it resulting in a large spark, a loud crack, a tripped breaker, and no lights in the kitchen. Realizing what happened, she goes to the breaker box to flip the breaker back on. Rather than reading the breaker ID diagram taped to the box, her method is to flip breakers until the kitchen lights come back on. She, of course, flips on the breaker for the master bath.
I heard the arcing of the current before I felt it, as I happened to move my hand away from a switch. Then I felt it - not the current but my wedding ring. I don't know how long the current was running through my ring into me but, when I looked at it, my ring was glowing!
It burnt the fingertips of my right hand as I took off the ring and, of course, left an indelible, seared-on ring around my finger which resulted in a visit to the doctor. I still have faint scarring on that finger. Oh, and the ring had slag divots from the arcing current, a flat spot from where I dropped it on the floor, and a slight elliptical shape.
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