I had a second account (admin) on the bridge of a homebase docked ship.
Pirates had spawned, so the turrets on the station and the the ship opened fire.
The admin toon on the bridge was killed by one of the stations turrets even though he was on the bridge, the ship was not taking damage (homebase) and anyway the shields on the ship are approx 7.8 million.
This is not the first time I have heard of this, a player on the server was watching a battle from his bridge and was killed by the pirate station, his shields were near max strength and no block damage.
The only thing that links these events was that both toons were looking out through crystal armour windows on the ship bridges.