I know of a couple of instances around these parts where arc flash has took it's toll as well. I don't think that the majority of EC's & even large corporations are paying attention to this. They are still thinking shock protection.
Having done arc flash assessments for a large industrial facility, the upper management did allow us at that time to make some changes to easily done things such as relay settings, but balked when it came time to pony up to such things as mandating Nomex clothing and changing long-time practices. The problem is that protective device setting is a lot of times it's a compromise to begin with, particularly with the setting of relays, and focuses on protecting equipment and maintaining electrical continuity, not protecting more fragile human beings.
Having been able to listen to Lanny Floyd in person once and doing some reading on the issue, basically in the worse case, one strives to make the event at least surviveable, not necessarily walk away with no injury whatsoever. The values that it takes to hurt a person is very small compared to the energy capable of being produced if a fault is allowed to linger.
The path to progress is paved in blood unfortunately.
