my dad has been an electrician in NYC for 30 years. He makes alot of money but yes it's dangerous. Not only does he work with live wire but most of the time he's working in the subway tunnels in NY. He's told me tons of stories about men he's worked with that have been hit by trains,decapitated, hurt by heavy equipment, badly cut, electrocuted.
Do they usually work on temporarily unactive tracks? yes. But there have been TOO MANY flukes before where they were all working on the track working, looked up, and saw a train coming full speed @ them & had to LITERALLY DIVE off of the track.
Many times they're working BETWEEN 2 active tracks. On occasion when 2 trains go by at the same time you basically have to stand up straight and NOT MOVE A MUSCLE since there are speeding trains no more then a foot from either side of you. An apprentice he was training once stood up since there was a train coming in front of him, he got alittle nervous and leaned his head back aayfrom the train not realizing there was a train coming from the other angle. He leaned his head back and the train behind him decapitated him.
They breath in dirt and chemicals alllll day. 2 men that he works with now have lung cancer as a direct result.
Anyway..
I would date someone with a risky job but I can't say i wouldn't be constantly worried about them!! After all these yrs i still worry about my dad. In a way i wouldn't wnat that but in a way i'm used to it.
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