Electrical Plant Room Explosion - Unknown If Lived Or Died
Here’s the explanation with the vid:
CCTV,Colombia,Two people are working in the plant-room of a building when an unexpected explosion occurs…..i suspect he caught a cable on the buzz bars?….any ideas sparky’s?
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Looks like they were pulling cable or torqueing a lug or something. Saw a guys belt buckle get fused to a 480V bus runing at 800A when it touched a buss bar still have a picture of it.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:29 amSomebody didn’t follow the Lock Out Tag Out procedure.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:34 amAt the box that’s DC current. My guess is that he fried, although they cut the power or the power shorted out so I guess there’s a chance.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:34 amMy guess is that the worker is “racking in” a high voltage circuit breaker. It was likely in the closed position, and he was having trouble getting it to “plug in” because of interlocks. He may have gotten help from the other worker to defeat the interlock and racked it in while it was closed. When a closed breaker is racked in to a hot bus, an explosion occurs when the bus connectors touches the breaker connectors because of the high current on a poor connection.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:47 amI wish I could get a copy of this video in some way, as I teach high voltage electrical safety, and this is the best video I have seen that illustrates the hazard of electrical flash accidents.
If someone can tell me how to get a copy, please let me know by commenting.
Mike
Hi Mike.
I’m attempting to find raw footage, but I cannot see anything about this scary accident in the news.
If you wish to rip it, copy and paste into your webbrowser.
http://cdn.liveleak.com/16/media16/2008/jun/17/LiveLeak-dot-com-224512-1948.flv
Or if that doesn’t work, go to tools - internet options - settings - view files.
When the folder “Temporary internet files” pops up, click on the “size” button at the top of the columns and it should arrange by size. Look near the largest filesizes for:
LiveLeak-dot-com-224512-1948.flv | http://cdn.liveleak.com/16/media16/2008/Jun/17/LievLeak-dot-com-224512-1948.flv | FLV File | 2,628KB | 7/30/2033 8:06PM
If you write your email address (email@wherever dot com) I can send it to you. Hope this helps.
-Ray
August 6th, 2008 at 2:25 amIf my last comment didn’t arrive.
* Go to tools - internet options - settings - view files.
* Arrange by size by clicking on “size”
* Look for the larger entry with details as below:
LiveLeak-dot-com-224512-1948.flv | http://cdn.liveleak.com/16/media16/2008/Jun/17/LievLeak-dot-com-224512-1948.flv | FLV File | 2,628KB | 7/30/2033 8:06PM
Hope this helps Mike!
August 6th, 2008 at 2:27 amPoor Guy,
August 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pmNo rubbers, no flash shield, took a trip to the surface of the sun.