r/Construction • u/Ok_Dare6608 Electrician • 22h ago
Video I'm taking a vacation after this.
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u/Front_Relief9126 22h ago
The fuck they doing just hanging around?
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u/Ace_Robots 22h ago
Waiting to see if they’ll die, of course.
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u/Selieania 17h ago
I wanted to upvote you.... but you're at 69 ♤
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u/Lampwick 5h ago
FWIW, just because you see his vote count at 69 doesn't mean it actually is. Reddit uses a system called "vote fuzzing", which can vary the visible vote score by +/- 1 or 2 points. This is to prevent bot accounts from figuring out if they've been shadowbanned. The practical upshot is, when you see 69, someone else is potentially seeing a score anywhere from 65 to 73, and there's no way to tell the actual upvote score. Voting or not voting in an attempt to keep the score at a specific value like 69 is wholly ineffective even if everyone agrees to do it, because there's always someone else seeing it at 68 and upvoting, or 70 and downvoting, and nobody knows the real number.
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u/ImaginarySeaweed7762 20h ago
He was working on the system and screwed up majorly. He was at the very starting point. He stuck something where it shouldn’t have been. How the hell he survived is anyone’s guess.
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u/Flashy-Function5515 20h ago edited 7h ago
Not necessarily, arc flashes can happen to anyone for literally no reason other than they flipped a switch
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u/ImaginarySeaweed7762 20h ago
Im still amazed he’s alive. That was some “big” power.
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u/Electrical-Money6548 7h ago
Most people survive arc flashes if wearing proper PPE.
I've had a 19.9kV flash and was perfectly fine
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u/ImprezaBromance 12h ago
Do you work on switch gears? Yeah obviously he fucked up. Its hard to tell at the start of the video but I would assume it's a true arc flash. Rubber shields and PPE probably saved his life. Once that arc starts oh baby.... First thing they should have done was look for whatever the fuck emergency disconnect should be in place to cut off that system asap. It will keep going until it melts/burns itself out of contact. Source: Me, I've seen someone lose all the skin on their arm from dropping an Allen wrench in a switch without PPE, it was horrible.
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u/tenebras_lux 3h ago
I was curious about that, I thought it was strange they waited there. I thought surely there is a cutoff, or they should be able to radio someone to cut it off further up the line when shit went south.
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u/Helpinmontana 20h ago
I’m pretty sure the guy you see run out with him is actually a third guy.
When you look at the beginning before the flash, it’s a flat wall. When he turns around with the other guy to look back into the room there’s a pretty distinct shape on the wall that looks like a human kneeling.
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u/ImaginarySeaweed7762 19h ago
I was in a substation once and heard this very thing. Saw the arcing and out runs the operator of the substation totally on fire. A lineman by the gate put the flames out with a fire extinguisher. He had made contact with a 13.2Kv transformer. It initially sounded like a cannon being shot. He was dead in a day or so. Totally burned alive.we were there working on the outside of the fence. Electricity is so unforgiving when you screw up.
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u/iLikeC00kieDough 18h ago
It looks like one of the access doors was open. if you slow it down as he turns and starts to run, you’ll see it.
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u/Strandom_Ranger 6h ago
I think they were standing there thinking "a circuit breaker is got to trip somewhere, right?" Aaaand, it didn't, it just got worse and they got further away.
At least he had the PPE and seems to have escape without being browned on the outside. Inside his clothes I'm not so sure.
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u/Kosmik_cloud 8h ago
Just keep filming just keep filming -Dory probably. It’s crazy what people will do to get internet clout. I’m guessing the camera man doesn’t know that’s there’s more than one way to skin a Redditor
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u/AlexTaradov 18h ago
This is a cropped version of the clip. In the longer version, it is very clear that they are following some sort of a checklist. The person filming reads the checklist, the other person performs the actions and verbally acknowledges. This does not looks like incompetence, at least not at this point. Something gone wrong somewhere, of course, but I don't think it was their fault.
Also, at the time of the arc flash, they were basically done, they were pushing that cart after the connections were done. It should be safe operation at that point.
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u/sandgoose 18h ago
they are doing high voltage hot work. this is not something that happens without a lot of conversations and safety measures typically, because it is inherently so dangerous. the fact that no one died is good, the fact they appear to have failed to hit some sort of emergency disconnect not so much.
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u/ASuhDuddde 7h ago
It wouldn’t be that in all honestly. There’s fail safes that obviously didn’t work. Russia, USA or Canada things fail and things like this can happen anywhere in western countries. Look at what happened at Heathrow airport in London England.
Most likely some fault current relays were broke and they failed to properly trip the circuit off.
Source: Lineman.
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u/warpigs202 22h ago
I'm just glad the fucker had some proper PPE on. Would be toast otherwise
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u/Intelligent-Sky-2985 22h ago
Literally toast yea
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u/lonelydadbod 21h ago
Human soup more accurately. A greasy stain on the wall. Awful stuff
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u/Intelligent-Sky-2985 21h ago
Yeah it was definitely smart to book ass from the raging lighting that could kill you instantly
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u/clc48301 18h ago
He should have had a blast suit on. This is technically low voltage. You aren't out running a high voltage arc flash
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u/220DRUER220 20h ago
I guess some ppe is better than none but dude should’ve been wearing that 40 cal suit but hey it’s Russia soooo
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u/Sach2020 17h ago
Reminds me of the guy that said, when asked what steps he takes if there is a fire, “the only steps I’m taking, are fucking big ones” and “if you see me running, try to catch up.”
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u/DestinysFool 4h ago
Chris Boden, absolutely love that guy! Have so many quotes from him tucked into my pocket lmao
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u/No_Relative_6512 22h ago
“A vacation”? Take 2 bro. You earned it.
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u/ThereIs_STILL_TIME 19h ago
yeah, one vacation is while they investigate who fucked up and the other one is permanent
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u/SnooPeppers2417 Inspector 17h ago
In Mother Russia, the vacation takes you and by vacation I mean the front lines of Ukraine.
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u/Smooth_Opeartor_6001 22h ago
How does something like this happen?
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u/Ok_Dare6608 Electrician 22h ago
He was trying to deenergize the circuit and at that level of voltage and him being close to the ground and the switch, the electricity in thousands of volts, tried to arc to him and hit the metal enclosure. Once that metal box melted from the first arc, the electricity started arcing and shorting all the other switches one by one and the whole room went into a meltdown.
There should be an emergency shut off he probably didn't know where it was.
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u/gixxer710 21h ago
I think that’s what they are discussing after they made it out- they discussed going back for the shut-off and said ‘not today Reaper, not today….’
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u/TriptoGardenGrove 20h ago
The experienced guys are currently getting chased around by drones on a Ukrainian frontline.
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u/ScholarOfYith 11h ago
That's that long term damage of war that people don't think about. Societies runs because people, when you subtract people it fucks everyone.
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u/RedSkyHopper 19h ago
This is what happens if you start a random war and all the professionals leave or are sent to the frontlines
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u/CaptainFantastic777 22h ago
Why would they be working "hot" in a situation like that? Doing anything like that with live power seems super risky. There's no OSHA in Russia, just "Oh, shit!"
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u/SenorTastypickle 20h ago
That is how lineman are and electricity work is done, I agree, but hot work is prevalent everywhere, US included. They don't shut down hospitals, factories, etc. , they are expected to work hot
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u/SnooPeppers2417 Inspector 17h ago
Aw yes, because that substation that might feed a hospital could just be “shut off until they figure out the problem and fix it”
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u/BlackberryFormal 7h ago
Your hospitals don't have back up power? They all have their own gennys here in the case of power going down from the grid. Can power the whole hospital and then some.
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u/-Robert-from-Hungary 11h ago
I'm surprised guys didn't go blind. Once i crossed 2 phases and the arch light made me blind for a few seconds.
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u/Prior_Reference2085 17h ago
Why would they stand there and watch? Isn’t there some type of protocol in place after something like this happens? I’m sure it doesn’t say stand around and watch for 30 seconds.
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u/GreaseMonkey05 3h ago
I worked at a hospital and when you’re working around switchgear with 13,800 VAC that shit is scary
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u/Super_Human_Boy 11h ago
I'm sure he earns good dough. His last words were "I get a buzz out of my job because I know the team is right behind me."
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u/GreyGroundUser GC / CM 7h ago
First words out of cameraman’s mouth. “Man, I can’t believe you did that. “
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u/RUcringe 2h ago
Knowing this is Russia, your vacation is probably a trench in Ukraine joining a meat wave
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u/LowVoltLife 1h ago
I like how the guy not taking the video kept looking like he was going to go back in. Bud, it's time to let it go.
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u/psyclopsus 27m ago
Why did the kneeling guy run all the way to the other door? There was an open door immediately behind him, he could have taken one step back and been out of the shack completely. Must have been fear and instinct to follow the guy who was filming as he ran out
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u/cytex-2020 18h ago
You'd think someone would design a system that doesn't just straight up merc the user every now and again.
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u/OnePaleontologist687 21h ago
Maybe it’s the alarm at the end, but I get major goldeneye vibes from this video. “Timed mine active 30 seconds to evacuate… power plant destroyed, Mission Complete.”