About a month ago (mid-December)....guys handling the bags at Berlin's newly opened airport (BER) started to report electrical shocks.
There's at least ten different news sites reporting this, but it basically comes down to a four-line text piece, and it centers on people touching the metal control panel of the x-ray machine (as bags go through). The 'damage'? It's serious enough that the guy usually has to leave duty for the day.
Issue? Unknown. The 'property' in this case is federal police controlled and they've taken up the issue.
Poor grounding? Well....older electricians would immediately launch upon this and just start start looking at the wiring and if anything is touching the electrical source. Normally, you'd be talking about a electrician being called and the event would be corrected within twenty-four hours. In this case? Here we are in mid-January, and the event continues.
This week, the union for the employees finally stood up and said 'enough'.....urging the airport authorities to finally take action.
Another chapter in the crappy nature of construction of BER? Well...that's the thing about the ten-year history of construction....you almost feel like this is North Korea and some incompetent management crew is ensuring things never get resolved.
You probably have to wait until the director of the airport walks in to get a presentation of the problem, with him touching the metal panel, and getting a fair dose of 'discharge', then falling to the floor before they get professional electricians to resolve this.
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