lol... I meant MossRoad's question wasn't aimed at me!
But the one death of which I'm aware due to one of my products, which are ironically designed and used specifically for the purpose of saving lives, occurred at an air base in the UK. Big log periodic fixed antenna about 300 feet tall aimed down at an asphalt test range of maybe 3 acres size, where they'd arrange groups of planes, tanks, missiles... whatever, to blast with high-power radiation and look for potential vulnerabilities in their electronics. This is aimed at ensuring planes and missiles don't go "boom" or fall out of the sky when they fly past a radar tower, as well as hardening to vulnerabilities related to EMP's and nuclear blasts.
Teens had been sneaking onto the base in off-hours, using some of the large test sites for parties, skate boarding, and basketball, among other things. A third-party contractor was hired to run chain link fence around the area to keep them out, which due to the typical issue of one department not understanding the needs of another, interfered with the high power antennae on the test site. They were actually making lightning along the top of the fence, per the reference to Paschen's law from kenmbz above, as well as causing the amplifier to malfunction due to unusually high reflected power.
The story I was told is that a worker was sent out to cut down part of the fence, and due to a lack of (or perhaps illegal bypass of) various safety interlocks and protocols, the RF amplifier got powered up while the guy was out on the range. I'm not sure he even knew he was being cooked, as their test frequencies from that amp can pass thru the skin and attack mostly high-density organs (i.e. liver, testes, etc.), but it ultimately resulted in his death.
There have surely been countless other similar injuries, the details of which only a few of ever make it back to me, as I'm only designing the high power amplifiers and components, not the overall site plan or management. Accidents and injuries during testing happen, but are much less common when I'm running into a dummy load, than when the customer is lighting up the air with an antenna or field generator. Two I recall well was my mentor cooking his arm, which he never felt and we only detected by the smell of cooking chicken in the room, and another leaning on a directional coupler when it exploded violently.
