Next time you think you’re having a bad day at work, spare a thought for the contractor who had to be hauled out of a nuclear reactor pool on Tuesday.

The accident happened early in the morning at the Palisades Power Plant in Covert, Michigan, a single-combustion facility operating a pressurized water reactor. After tumbling an unknown distance into the nuclear cavity, the unnamed contractor was quickly decontaminated and sent to seek emergency medical care with minor injuries, MLive reported.

Unfortunately, while they were down there, the worker also “ingested some amount of cavity water,” according to the federal incident report.

“While performing work inside the containment building, a Palisades contractor fell into a pool near the reactor that contained clean, borated water,” a plan

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