This is frightening! Yet, I know an electrician who worked on live equipment at a major client's premises because he "didn't want to inconvenience the users".
1:04 shrapnel: arcs spray droplets of molten metal at 700mph+. 1:22 high temp: electrical arcs produce some of the highest temperatures known to occur on earth. up to 35,000F or 3x the temperature of the sun. 1:38 sudden air expansion. all known materials are vaporized at this temperature. the rate of expansion is comparable to a pea sized piece of copper expanding to the size of a rail boxcar. blast pressure waves have thrown workers across the room. 1:56 fatal burns: even when several feet away. 2:03 hearing loss: the arc blast can have a sound magnitude of 140db at a distance of 2ft from the arc resulting in permanent hearing loss.
That lad on the right is deffo not getting the right message from his safety briefing. Look at him, hes just sitting there thinking "dammmmnnn, that sounds _awesome_"
Great observation! Not 100% of the team fully focus on what is being taught in safety meetings. However, if the system is designed for safety & reliability from an operational structure, the high-risk activities can be eliminated and the threat to worker safety can be avoided.
i was a lineman and had two good flashes in my career up on the pole top with switches that failed, luckily i was in a bucket both times and on the end of an 8 foot switch stick and ppe and fr clothing. both were at night and it looked like the sun had come out, yikes, i was lucky both times equipment failure.@@toddkes5890
This is frightening! Yet, I know an electrician who worked on live equipment at a major client's premises because he "didn't want to inconvenience the users".
Such a friendly video for such a painful and terrifying experience
😂
An arc flash is when there is a flash in the shape of an arc.
I just had a cat trigger an arc on a shitty outlet somehow survived but our circuit didn't
1:04 shrapnel: arcs spray droplets of molten metal at 700mph+. 1:22 high temp: electrical arcs produce some of the highest temperatures known to occur on earth. up to 35,000F or 3x the temperature of the sun. 1:38 sudden air expansion. all known materials are vaporized at this temperature. the rate of expansion is comparable to a pea sized piece of copper expanding to the size of a rail boxcar. blast pressure waves have thrown workers across the room. 1:56 fatal burns: even when several feet away. 2:03 hearing loss: the arc blast can have a sound magnitude of 140db at a distance of 2ft from the arc resulting in permanent hearing loss.
That lad on the right is deffo not getting the right message from his safety briefing. Look at him, hes just sitting there thinking "dammmmnnn, that sounds _awesome_"
Great observation! Not 100% of the team fully focus on what is being taught in safety meetings. However, if the system is designed for safety & reliability from an operational structure, the high-risk activities can be eliminated and the threat to worker safety can be avoided.
My friend got hit by one of these which isn’t released on the news yet. But he and 3 others are in Bad Shape!!
Bet they make BANK though for putting there life on the line
Scary,I had it in house
it can be nasty, wearing as much ppe as you got helps.
Full-body PPE helps, especially if you pair it with opening the inspection panel from 10+ feet away to the side with a non-conductive lever
i was a lineman and had two good flashes in my career up on the pole top with switches that failed, luckily i was in a bucket both times and on the end of an 8 foot switch stick and ppe and fr clothing. both were at night and it looked like the sun had come out, yikes, i was lucky both times equipment failure.@@toddkes5890
You've drank way too much corporate/insurance Kool-Aid.
@@jimmywells33well if you've had an encounter with it lets hear it.
Take the fckin music off