Woe to the supervisor (or "qualified individual") who lets an untrained person try to flip the breaker back to ON without switching it OFF first, especially in the presence of a dead short...
Actually there is an OSHA rule that says a tripped breaker cannot be reset by anyone until the cause of the trip is located and repaired. There is an exception that permits resetting if you know that the trip was caused by an overload condition.
Don
