Scary day today.

Today was the most scariest day of my career as a lineman so far. So, the story begins with me and about ten other guys checking for bad underground. in a transformer cabinet with two hot lines inside and 4 dead lines. I am going to try to put this in terms that you might understand cause my wife and family say that it goes way over their heads when I talk to them. I was holding onto a dead line with my rubber gloves and another guy went to a transformer to put another line back to normal which the line would still have been dead but he connected the wire to another spot because he said it didn't fit in the spot he was thinking it should have gone and well where he connected it had electricity present which was 7200 volts of electricity and well it back fed to the line that I was holding and luckily I had my rubber gloves on or I would not be writing this today. I know that the Lord has helped me keep an open mind and think before I act and was definitely without a doubt watching over me because my purpose here on earth is not over yet. It was a very scary situation because I did not think that anything like that would happen and I would have never known what hit me. My foreman came up to me afterwords and said " I am very glad that you had your rubber gloves on because I would have hated to be the one going up to your wife and kids and tell them that there daddy and husband would not be coming home." That is really when it hit me hard and I am having a hard time sleeping tonight because of that fact that I am still thinking of how fatal the situation could have been. Once again I am very thankful that I was being watched over and that my mind was in a state of considering everything to be hot and wore my rubber gloves my only protection. I know that this job is dangerous and that electricity is very unforgiving and I am reminded of it everyday. I am not mad at the person who made the mistake but I will have a hard time trusting and working around him when there is hot wires that we will be working with. The guy who had made the mistake had been working underground cables for 6 years today and was boasting about it being 6 years today had made such a mistake. The situation even though everything was OK was still a very dangerous situation for me and many others on the job today. It really makes me appreciate working on over head lines because there is more of a visual of line being dead or at the least know what is hot and what to touch and what not to touch.