Gee, thanks Bill. Now I have another thing to worry about
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It is sobering, isn't it?
Long time ago, now, I worked for a PoCo as a newly graduated electrical engineer. One of the things I was introduced to, in my couple years there, was a meter department training video (movie, then) about what could go wrong with a meter insert, or unplugging. The movie included a lot of high speed photography of the few seconds of a meter being hit with sustained fault currents of various values. Almost all of the examples showed the meter movement enclosure rupturing and exploding outward, in slow motion, as the solid metal conductors inside boiled into gas, expanding in volume by 1200 to 1600 times.
Ever since then, I have never stood in front of a meter that I'm handling at the instant of energizing.