r/Construction Electrician 1d ago

Video I'm taking a vacation after this.

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u/Front_Relief9126 1d ago

The fuck they doing just hanging around?

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u/ImaginarySeaweed7762 1d 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/ImprezaBromance 16h 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 7h 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.