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Living to tell about it.
> Tom, don't you know somebody who was hit through a stopcock?
>David Ablon
>
Candice King (a friend of mine and Neon News contributor) got severely
burned at her first neon job, when an arc went out a glass stopcock and
though her hand, then out her chest to a metal object nearby. She was
hospitalized, lucky to be alive, and, as she put it, "a quick study on how
to do it safer from then on."
When you think about it a double-switch or remote-switch kind of safety is
pretty minimal when compared with, say, England, where the neon to pump sits
in a glass-walled room, controls on the outside, safety switches in place
such that an arc can't strike without the glass door being closed, operator
outside.
-Ted Pirsig