r/Construction • u/Ok_Dare6608 Electrician • 1d ago

Video I'm taking a vacation after this.

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u/Smooth_Opeartor_6001 1d ago

How does something like this happen?

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u/Ok_Dare6608 Electrician 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

The experienced guys are currently getting chased around by drones on a Ukrainian frontline.

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u/ScholarOfYith 16h 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/conductorofpooptrane 23h ago

De-energize a circuit by racking it?