When I worked at the wheelchair joint, this was a building that was originally some sort of shop, maybe for trucks. Have very tall roll up doors clear to the ceiling. The company had installed a pre-fab bolt together mezzanine floor, and there was not much headroom upstairs. I could reach up and touch the ceiling. In one corner, the rails for the door came up and along the ceiling, and closeby was a row of flourescent lamps.
They had hired a girl who had problems. One day she evidently ran out of stuff to do, and the company was slowly converting the lamps to LED. I guess someone had told her "she could do that."
I was working at my bench, and got up to stretch my legs. I heard something over in that corner, there were stock shelves blocking my view, so I walked around and here she was. She was standing on a 2- step stool, in a tank top. Her head was inches away from the lamp housing, and her bare shoulder was inches away from the door track. A bit of movement, and she could have contacted them. Here she was, changing out the fixture LIVE. Bear in mind if you were darn careful, you could do this, but IT IS NOT LEGAL and she was not an electrician
I walked over and stood there, and said as gently as I could, "do you know what you are doing with electrics?" "Not really." "Do you realize this could kill you? You need to not do this."
BEAR IN MIND this is against electrical code and OSHA. I went down and talked to the boss, and I might as well have told him that someone was eating lunch. No real reaction.
Part of my then workbench. Notice the huge American Beauty soldering iron, and DIY lamp controller in a box. The buss bars I had to solder into the drive module PC board required A LOT of HEAT!!!
Just a general view of part of the electronics bay. The closest bench was dedicated to building/ assembling, repair, and rebuild of hand control modules.
The one just to the left had a stereo microscope, was dedicated to surface mount.
Further on down and in the corner were the test jigs for doing bench tests of the electronics packages.
My bench is down towards the end. Since the demise of the in-house electronics package, the "electronics" bay is tremendously reduced. That is allegedly what cost me my job, even though I could built everything else. They just wanted someone cheaper.
Building a bunch of accessory switchboxes. I don't remember what, I would assume these are lockout/ limit switches for power seating. You must either limit chair speed or lock it up depending on what is being done with power seating, tilt, elevate, etc.
