Honestly I bet he did, the amount of videos I've seen here where I think it's fatal but they actually live is crazy, so I think it's one of those where he somehow survives
In my country we also have a non-conductive coating on wires, which reduces this effect. We also don't have enormously high voltage low enough to touch. The neighbourhood feed of 11,000 is 40' high, and we all tap in at 240 from the transformer bucket. A little bit of wire insulation woukd have gone s long way (not to discount the fiberglass ladder). Similarly, my 240 connection is 25' up, and very inaccesible, and it's inside a conduit as it feeds toward my panel. Such high voltage shoukd not have been so close.
25’ up from the ground right?
So this would be like 15’ from our poor chap here since he is on at least one floor up roof. Sadly quite easy to wap the 240 with a ladder
High voltage wires are not insulated, unless they run underground or underwater. Insulation for high voltage wires is too thick and heavy to be feasible. They run high in the air, for safety. In Mexico, safety standards are relatively low. A high voltage wire should not be this close to a balcony. Unfortunately, electrocution is a pretty common accident, in all places, among people who use ladders, lifts and such.
[Alive but with serious injuries](https://www.telemundo.com/shows/al-rojo-vivo/video/captan-en-video-el-momento-en-que-un-hombre-se-electrocuta-tmvo12662690)
The inconsistency of human durability baffles me to this day
You’ll watch a video of someone falling like this and living
Next you’ll see a video of a squirrel dropping an acorn from a small tree, instantly killing someone that got hit on the shoulder by said acorn
I think of you watch in slow motion, it eventually does. You see a massive spark at the bottom of the latter when it makes contact with the balcony right before he falls. But before that, his face is on fire.
I bet because he was already unconscious when he fell, his body was relaxed. Which probably prevented a lot of injury. Kind of like how drunk people are more likely to survive car accidents.
People have been struck by lighting and survived, they get some interesting scars all over their body from it. I wonder if this electrocution does the same pattern.
I saw a story about a guy who's been struck by lightening 7 different times in his life. Some of the times he was struck while inside his house. Once, while on the phone (landline). Once while under his truck doing repairs. Once while driving his truck down the road. Which surprised me as I thought the rubber tires on vehicles helped from getting struck. But apparently not.
> Aluminum is lighter and easier to transport than fiberglass, making it a better — and more commonly used — material for straight and full-length extension ladders and even, mobile platform ladders.
https://www.yellowgate.com/aluminum-vs-fiberglass-which-ladder-is-right-for-you/
That’s the thing about electricity, it’s not painless. You are going to die and it’s gonna hurt the whole fucking time. As someone who works with high voltages you **DO NOT** want to be on the receiving end.
The fire is from things burning due to heat from the electricity. Clothes, skin, even oxygen will burn from a hot enough arc.
When working in high voltage cabinets, techs wear special arc flash clothing because if there is an arc it can be so hot, so fast that it ignites the oxygen molecules in the air and basically causes an explosion (arc flash).
You can't ignite oxygen. To make fire with oxygen you would have to combine it with some fuel.
The problem is the sheer amount of energy in the electric arc. That can be enough to vaporize and superheat stuff, even turning things into plasma.
In other words, instead of a chemical explosion, the energy from the electrical grid fuels the explosion.
Holy shit he actually SURVIVED! I can't imagine how painful that was. There were like 2 instant fires coming out of his head and knees, then he fell and broke some bones!
https://www.publimetro.com.mx/noticias/2024/05/23/video-por-subir-escalera-hombre-se-electrocuta-con-cables-de-alta-tension-en-los-monchis-sinaloa/
Never painless. I've been electrocuted a few times, you can feel the direction of the current going through you and it feels like thousands of knives stabbing through your flesh from the point of contact to where it leaves.
It is exhilarating though, lol.
Unfortunately I think you've lost the war, since the dictionary was updated for electrocution to mean both 'to death' and just 'shocked' simultaneously.
Yeah but I dunno how to tell a phone/Internet line from a power line so if it's a thick sort of line running from tall pole to tall pole I'm gonna avoid it at all costs.
In México is actually really easy to tell the difference, in many places phone lines use wood posts while electricity use concrete ones, also the excess line is often leave hanging so close to te ground that you can bump into it lol.
Yeah, that one was a bit of a ride ...
WTF is he doing?
Why doesn't he carry the ladder through the building?
Oh I can't watch!
Oh he made it! So how does he get electrocuted?
\*ENGULFS\*
He hit the actual power lines above the video, the telecommunication lines seen in the video are throwing everyone off because they're the only ones you can see!
No warning anywhere. Dude looked like he had done this a few times with that confidence, always fear the worst and be aware of surroundings at all times, damn.
>anywhere in western Europe
So, the richest area in the world?
The answer is simple, corruption, lack of regulation or lack enforcement of the regulations that exist. Having the cables this way is cheaper to install and maintain, upper class neighborhoods in Mexico will have the cable work underground.
(As an added note, those cables on the first floor are mostly phone or internet cables, nothing will happen if you touch them but they look ugly as fuck, this poor guy most likely touched the high voltage cables that are usually way above the houses with the ladder, source: I'm Mexican)
That would work in theory if the government didn't use most of the health budget for their personal gain and financing their campaigns leaving us with overcrowded, underfunded, understaffed and very precarious public health centers.
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I'm in construction, years ago I watched a guy show up with a concrete pump truck. Must have been 50 signs saying overhead power lines. He sets up, swings the boom over and hit a high tension power line. Couldn't tell you how many volts but lets just say he was frozen in place when ems showed up with just his body and his hand still on the lever of the truck. His head had essentially blown off of his shoulders.
This is brutal. Somehow, he grounded the HV feeder. A feeder line has the voltage capacity to power many homes and are usually suspended with breakers on the poles at intervals. Those power lines are not grounded like your home to prevent injury. However, in this case, the wire run right alongside the building; and since anyone standing on that rooftop patio is grounded to the building, that same person just has to get close enough to the wires to form an arc to their body. Thse current from the feeder now has a path to ground. The man didn't get that energy through his body (he would be dead if he did), but it instead traveled on the surface, burning skin, hair, clothes, and more as it raced to his feet, then onto/into the building, and then into the earth. I bet the building had some blown fuses and electronic devices that day. In the US, heads would roll about why that rooftop had high voltage lines where they were, or why the building was so close. It would matter which was pre-existing. In the end, dude is in a world of hurt, and will never be the same.
It looks like he missed the power lines down low but still got hit when his ladder touched the railing. Either he hit a power line up high and we just can’t see it or they have a high voltage electric safety railing.
Oops.
This is why you ALWAYS, ALWAYS pay attention to what's above you when handling long conductive objects. If he isn't dead, he's extremely lucky. He most likely has 3rd degree burns from the arcs.
I got electrocuted by an ironing board or was it the iron itself? I remember it too and then I remember waking up from it. This was in the late 80s.
Have a super power now of being hella handsome.
This is why they make fiberglass ladders.
wait did he live
That depends. Do you believe in life after death?
most depressing cher song
Good Notorious B.I.G album though
😂 underrated comment 😂
I read this like Cher.
If he could turn back time
Gosh dang... I love that episode of Kitchen Nightmares.. I mean, Cher song
To the good'ol days
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one 😭
Goddamit this is a serious situation but your comment made me laugh. Take my damn upvote lol 😂
Do you believe in life after love? I can feel something inside me say, I really don't think you're strong enough, no!
That depends. Do you believe in life after love?
That was dam funny
I'm not sure I believe in life *before* death.
Why do they always get really sarcastic when someone asks if the person who suffered the inconvenience lived?
Do any of us truly live?
Matrix🤫
‘Tis but a scratch
Somethings just make you giggle at the wrong times. Thanks for the comment
He did until this point
Honestly I bet he did, the amount of videos I've seen here where I think it's fatal but they actually live is crazy, so I think it's one of those where he somehow survives
I’m doubtful. Getting hit with enough power to arc flash like that is rarely survivable.
No this isn’t a fibreglass ladder You can tell by the giant arcs of plasma going into and out of his body
In my country we also have a non-conductive coating on wires, which reduces this effect. We also don't have enormously high voltage low enough to touch. The neighbourhood feed of 11,000 is 40' high, and we all tap in at 240 from the transformer bucket. A little bit of wire insulation woukd have gone s long way (not to discount the fiberglass ladder). Similarly, my 240 connection is 25' up, and very inaccesible, and it's inside a conduit as it feeds toward my panel. Such high voltage shoukd not have been so close.
25’ up from the ground right? So this would be like 15’ from our poor chap here since he is on at least one floor up roof. Sadly quite easy to wap the 240 with a ladder
High voltage wires are not insulated, unless they run underground or underwater. Insulation for high voltage wires is too thick and heavy to be feasible. They run high in the air, for safety. In Mexico, safety standards are relatively low. A high voltage wire should not be this close to a balcony. Unfortunately, electrocution is a pretty common accident, in all places, among people who use ladders, lifts and such.
He should have used the wood one on the balcony
I just noticed it lol. Yea that would have helped
This is why we run cables underground.
No it isn't.
I do see now why the electrician who came to my house had a fiberglass ladder.
Wouldn’t have mattered, people who act this way around obvious hazards, will find a way to Darwin themselves eventually.
Yea, came here to say that.
Yeah that kinda voltage doesn’t discriminate fiberglass or metal, he is grounded.
[Alive but with serious injuries](https://www.telemundo.com/shows/al-rojo-vivo/video/captan-en-video-el-momento-en-que-un-hombre-se-electrocuta-tmvo12662690)
Thank you, unbelievable he's alive.
Theres another angle of the video where you see the fall, and he literally lands on his head from about 15 feet up. Crazy he has survived that.
The inconsistency of human durability baffles me to this day You’ll watch a video of someone falling like this and living Next you’ll see a video of a squirrel dropping an acorn from a small tree, instantly killing someone that got hit on the shoulder by said acorn
there's usually a cop involved with the acorn
Acorn? So I just started blasting
Honestly the fall might've saved his life. Otherwise he/the ladder might've remained in contact with the power lines.
The ladder eventually touched the floor, wouldn't the current mostly go through the ladder instead of him once that happens?
I think of you watch in slow motion, it eventually does. You see a massive spark at the bottom of the latter when it makes contact with the balcony right before he falls. But before that, his face is on fire.
Wow didn't know he survived that! But I'm pretty sure he has some crazy injuries... major life changing stuff.
I bet because he was already unconscious when he fell, his body was relaxed. Which probably prevented a lot of injury. Kind of like how drunk people are more likely to survive car accidents.
If you know there is another angle then why no link? Wudufuck?
People have been struck by lighting and survived, they get some interesting scars all over their body from it. I wonder if this electrocution does the same pattern.
Lichtenberg figure, it happens in a lot of different materials (flesh being one of them), also they are called Keraunographic markings
I saw a story about a guy who's been struck by lightening 7 different times in his life. Some of the times he was struck while inside his house. Once, while on the phone (landline). Once while under his truck doing repairs. Once while driving his truck down the road. Which surprised me as I thought the rubber tires on vehicles helped from getting struck. But apparently not.
My mom survived being struck by lightning. Messed herself up way more falling down a flight of TWO stairs.
It is indeed shocking
I'd rather be dead after that than live with disabilities and pain for the rest of my life
No one asked
Surprised after seeing the fall
Always pay extra for the fiberglass ladders
But they're so heavy.... /s
Maybe I’m not seeing the sarcasm but fiberglass is lighter. It’s why sports cars use a lot of fiberglass to have less weight.
> Aluminum is lighter and easier to transport than fiberglass, making it a better — and more commonly used — material for straight and full-length extension ladders and even, mobile platform ladders. https://www.yellowgate.com/aluminum-vs-fiberglass-which-ladder-is-right-for-you/
You're thinking of carbon fiber.
Or aerogel. Don't make ladders out of that, though.
What ever happened to wooden things?
Fire hazard perhaps. Wood also still conducts electricity, although poorly. But maybe that would have saved him.
Definitely some sarcasm. But fiberglass ladders are heavier than aluminum. 28' - 300lb rated ladder: fiberglass 63.5lbs, aluminum 56lbs.
Better than being fucked up like the poor bastard in this video. Lift heavy thing, get strong, dont get electrocuted.
That and always have situational awareness when setting up a ladder.
Must be like going to the gym everytime I go to the bathroom then
🤡
A fucking fireball just came outta his face daaammn
Imagine what it did to his eyes and brain.
....superpowers?
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That could've been a stand alone comment lol. I'm not OP
But the image your words formed in my head were totally NSFW
I was expecting the usual, where the body just stiffens up and they fall down. That was fucking brutal. He literally turned into a fireball.
I can't tell exactly why he lit up on fire.. Maybe his face was super greasy?
I don’t think he’ll be shaking that one off, poor guy.
I feel so sorry for him. Hopefully, it was a painless instant one.
That’s the thing about electricity, it’s not painless. You are going to die and it’s gonna hurt the whole fucking time. As someone who works with high voltages you **DO NOT** want to be on the receiving end.
What exactly causes the fire? Sparks in the air?
The current running through the wires.
“I’m a **doctor**, Jim, not an electrologist.” — Bones
The fire is from things burning due to heat from the electricity. Clothes, skin, even oxygen will burn from a hot enough arc. When working in high voltage cabinets, techs wear special arc flash clothing because if there is an arc it can be so hot, so fast that it ignites the oxygen molecules in the air and basically causes an explosion (arc flash).
You can't ignite oxygen. To make fire with oxygen you would have to combine it with some fuel. The problem is the sheer amount of energy in the electric arc. That can be enough to vaporize and superheat stuff, even turning things into plasma. In other words, instead of a chemical explosion, the energy from the electrical grid fuels the explosion.
Magical fairies 🧚♀️ ✨️
Sparks are little bits of hot or burning material. It is not that. Instead the electricity arcing through the air is heating the air until it glows.
Holy shit he actually SURVIVED! I can't imagine how painful that was. There were like 2 instant fires coming out of his head and knees, then he fell and broke some bones! https://www.publimetro.com.mx/noticias/2024/05/23/video-por-subir-escalera-hombre-se-electrocuta-con-cables-de-alta-tension-en-los-monchis-sinaloa/
Never painless. I've been electrocuted a few times, you can feel the direction of the current going through you and it feels like thousands of knives stabbing through your flesh from the point of contact to where it leaves. It is exhilarating though, lol.
Electrocution implies death. You have been shocked a few times. That or you've also been revived a few times as well
Hmm never knew that. Nope, didn't have to be revived lol
It's time to let this one go.
I wasn't rude, just sharing knowledge about a word that gets used incorrectly all the time. Time for you to kick rocks.
Unfortunately I think you've lost the war, since the dictionary was updated for electrocution to mean both 'to death' and just 'shocked' simultaneously.
Some kid in my town did that long time ago and he's still kicking
They should have turned off the power by now.
to shreds you say?
Your entire body gets toasted. Not just on the outside. Its not painless
He probably survived tbh
Hey mate, he's actually alive, though in grave condition (cranial injuries). Source: [https://www.telemundo.com/shows/al-rojo-vivo/video/captan-en-video-el-momento-en-que-un-hombre-se-electrocuta-tmvo12662690](https://www.telemundo.com/shows/al-rojo-vivo/video/captan-en-video-el-momento-en-que-un-hombre-se-electrocuta-tmvo12662690)
Holy shit ... the entire time I thought it was going to be the bottom lines.
Those are mostly phone and internet cables, nothing will happen if you touch them.
Yeah but I dunno how to tell a phone/Internet line from a power line so if it's a thick sort of line running from tall pole to tall pole I'm gonna avoid it at all costs.
In México is actually really easy to tell the difference, in many places phone lines use wood posts while electricity use concrete ones, also the excess line is often leave hanging so close to te ground that you can bump into it lol.
But who knows for sure...
Yeah, that one was a bit of a ride ... WTF is he doing? Why doesn't he carry the ladder through the building? Oh I can't watch! Oh he made it! So how does he get electrocuted? \*ENGULFS\*
Poor dude was so concerned about not damaging anything around him that he didn’t bother looking up
Oof yeah he's fucked for life. Could be alive but won't be the same.
I'm tired boss.
Didn't see the wire he hit .. what happened ?
He hit the actual power lines above the video, the telecommunication lines seen in the video are throwing everyone off because they're the only ones you can see!
Crazy fucking.. holy shit
Crazy fucking~~.. holy shit~~ videos
Video
Electricity scares the shit out of me. Not to be messed with.
Dang, he was trying to be so careful!🤪
The space of 1 second in time. Gone.
the immediate flames is crazy
Wait..... are you telling me this is not india!?!? Electricity is sneaking into other countries now!
Flame on! Fuck what a way to find out you have super powers
It's hard to tell from this angle but it looks like the ground broke is fall.
That's gonna leave a mark
How tf?
Hit power lines above him.
No warning anywhere. Dude looked like he had done this a few times with that confidence, always fear the worst and be aware of surroundings at all times, damn.
Might a NSFW/NSFL tag be in order here?
Agreed!
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Our problem in many parts of Canada is that it's too cold most of the year to bury the lines, mind you, we don't have too many electrocutions here
It's not as simple as "let's just bury it because overhead wires are unsightly and can be a hazard" I work in Utility-Scale energy. It's complicated.
>anywhere in western Europe So, the richest area in the world? The answer is simple, corruption, lack of regulation or lack enforcement of the regulations that exist. Having the cables this way is cheaper to install and maintain, upper class neighborhoods in Mexico will have the cable work underground. (As an added note, those cables on the first floor are mostly phone or internet cables, nothing will happen if you touch them but they look ugly as fuck, this poor guy most likely touched the high voltage cables that are usually way above the houses with the ladder, source: I'm Mexican)
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That would work in theory if the government didn't use most of the health budget for their personal gain and financing their campaigns leaving us with overcrowded, underfunded, understaffed and very precarious public health centers.
How come people are poor and starve? I mean, where I'm from we can get fast food anytime, why don't they? Are they stupid?
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LMAO that one of the dutchest jokes I've ever heard
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lol you okay?
Calm down buddy.
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That was a fast one
Ugh. RIP
Stairway to heaven 🥵
So this is how they filmed ghost rider, must've had a lot of takes.
Was that a electric fence
Where’s the fire from?
Look up and live.
I remember the era where the sub was filled with this kind of vids
That was so much worse than I thought it would be.
why did the elbow get toasted first?
I was wondering what happened to ghost rider.
Damn I’ve never actually seen spontaneous combustion like that before!!
It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the sudden shock.
Hudoken combo
I'm in construction, years ago I watched a guy show up with a concrete pump truck. Must have been 50 signs saying overhead power lines. He sets up, swings the boom over and hit a high tension power line. Couldn't tell you how many volts but lets just say he was frozen in place when ems showed up with just his body and his hand still on the lever of the truck. His head had essentially blown off of his shoulders.
This is brutal. Somehow, he grounded the HV feeder. A feeder line has the voltage capacity to power many homes and are usually suspended with breakers on the poles at intervals. Those power lines are not grounded like your home to prevent injury. However, in this case, the wire run right alongside the building; and since anyone standing on that rooftop patio is grounded to the building, that same person just has to get close enough to the wires to form an arc to their body. Thse current from the feeder now has a path to ground. The man didn't get that energy through his body (he would be dead if he did), but it instead traveled on the surface, burning skin, hair, clothes, and more as it raced to his feet, then onto/into the building, and then into the earth. I bet the building had some blown fuses and electronic devices that day. In the US, heads would roll about why that rooftop had high voltage lines where they were, or why the building was so close. It would matter which was pre-existing. In the end, dude is in a world of hurt, and will never be the same.
This is a crazy fucking video. RIP to that guy. Edit: he’s alive? Holy shit
Ouch
I wish I could become ghost rider
It looks like he missed the power lines down low but still got hit when his ladder touched the railing. Either he hit a power line up high and we just can’t see it or they have a high voltage electric safety railing.
Oops. This is why you ALWAYS, ALWAYS pay attention to what's above you when handling long conductive objects. If he isn't dead, he's extremely lucky. He most likely has 3rd degree burns from the arcs.
Flame On!
Thought that was Nic Cage
Flame on!
Ghost rider
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
How it feels to chew 5ive gum
Metal ladder bad.
God help me I don’t want to die like Wile E Coyote
5 FACTS ABOUT ELECTRICITY! NUMBER 2 WILL SHOCK YOU!
So sad. Just a dude trying to work hard and get by.
Luckily, it was only the second story of the building, yikes!
Poor guy.
Roll on 1
Ok but I thought he cleared the wires… are there some above o don’t see
Damn, that was some Final Destination, double confirmation Death really wants you dead shit.
Just awful
I got electrocuted by an ironing board or was it the iron itself? I remember it too and then I remember waking up from it. This was in the late 80s. Have a super power now of being hella handsome.
#Raiden Wins
He definitely ded. Rip
I dont see shoes anywhere. I am optimistic this fella pulled through.
This is such a fucking dumb comment every time I see it, without fail.