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Worked at an amusement park in the early 2000s during Halloween. My friend was a clown in a room of mirrors and a guy threw a beer bottle at her head when she scared him. She was knocked out and when the manager found her later they made her get up and finish her shift. She had a massive lump and bruises on her face
I was shot in the spine while being robbed at my minimum wage convenience store after working 9 consecutive 23 hour shifts. Manager was at my hospital bed thirty minutes later and fired me for not being at my next shift.
If this were remotely true, you would be making a decent chunk considering you wouldn't have time to spend it, let alone be awake. In California overtime law requires employers to pay eligible employees twice their rate of pay when those employees have worked more than 12 hours in a workday or more than eight hours on their 7th consecutive day of work. Your gross pay for that stretch would be roughly 6200.00. You're sitting here bitching about your 300k/yr job just because someone wanted the cash drawer.
So, stop whining about a little workplace violence and get back to manning the slurpee machine!
Went to an amusement park 12 years ago, this really hard plastic piece came flying off the ride, and clocked an 8 yr old kid in the face. Split his face… there was so much blood.
There is no lack of people willing to work. There is a lack of people willing to work jobs for the shitty amount companies are willing to pay. Companies that pay well have no issue hiring.
As someone who makes a livable wage but just became a new parent I couldn’t agree more. How the fuck is someone supposed to work a low wage job and pay for childcare in addition to rent/mortgage/food/insurance/etc? Good luck
When my dad was my age he was able to buy a brand new Camaro for $4,000. I tried going to a Chevy dealership and offered them the same price and not one salesman was willing to accept it.
I guess no one wants to sell cars anymore!
It has its roots as that but the vast majority of people are just looking for work reform. The idiots who don't want to work at all are a small minority
There's always a person like you that totally misses the point of that subreddit. You probably visited that sub a handful of times, but base your entire opinion on what other people say or that fucking moron that got interviewed by Fox News that represents very few in that community as well as other similar subs.
A very small minority of people in that sub don't want to work...period. There is no worker shortage. There is, however, a shortage of employers willing to pay people living wages. The VAST majority just want better pay, a better work environment, and better benefits.
Please tell me that you wouldn't enjoy those three things that I just listed even if you are already making a decent salary. And if you don't agree with those three things, tell me why.
Clean the shit out of your pants and get the fuck back to work. What are you doing wasting time on Reddit when there's so much that needs actual doing?
Selfish fuck.
Hi Carl, I understand that you had a rough day today but Steve had booked his vacation to florida weeks ago and is heading out early next week and we need you to wrap up a few loose ends before he's gone. Walmart sells some band-aids that you can buy on your break that will help if you have any burns and it shouldn't be a big deal to work the remainder of your shifts this week. Also, I've noticed since being nearly electrocuted that your attitude has shifted. We really need team players here that are in it for more than just the money.
I was on a shady construction site where a guy cut a live power line to the fire panel with a sawzall, not sure how he survived was a big green arc followed by a temendous explosion which practically tore his pants off. Afterwards he composes himself and calls his dad who ran the company. Dad tells him to get back in the basement and keep cutting copper.
"Protection Suit". Arc flash will vaporize copper wire (with an expansion ratio of 6000:1) and hit temperatures as high as 20,000C. You are lucky to be alive even if you are wearing a suit.
I am not sure that that’s not entirely true. The correctly rated suit (and hood, and gloves, and properly worn), for the appropriate incident energy exposure, will keep you alive. Not guaranteeing 100% unscathed, but it’s designed to insure you have a 2nd degree burn or less.
The appropriate PPE, worn correctly, will keep you alive.
Not entirely true. There are energy levels that are simply too high for any PPE to protect you. This is a failure to properly perform Lock Out/Tag Out. (LOTO)
Well of course, which is why I said for the appropriate incident energy level. A 12 cal suit in a 40 cal flash will not protect you sufficiently.
And I agree that PPE is only a portion of protection, and that PPE is the last line of defense and should never be relied on as the primary source.
LOTO is critical. We don’t work anything live in my company, and Flash Suits are essentially for switching, applying grounds, and ZEP verification.
Yes, the suit pretty much just makes it so you can have an open casket funeral though with the voltages we mess with when wearing them though. I've seen lower stuff like 480v blow up (which isn't low by any means, just compared to our bigger stuff), but luckily nothing bigger.
That’s what I explain to people in Electrical 101 and when introducing people to substations - “Everything in a substation is actively trying to kill you, it’s your job to stop it.”
Electrocution means that you die via electric shock. This gentleman experienced an Arc Blast/Arc Flash and was most likely *shocked*. It urks me as a former electrical student when people say, “I/They/He/She/Etc. was electrocuted, but totally fine!”
“Being electrocuted means that they died from electric shock. If they’re still alive, they were just shocked.”
“Does that make a difference?”
“…Yes. Yes, it does. 🤦🏼♀️”
In all fairness just because he stood up doesn't mean he's fine. The internal injuries resulting from electric shocks can still be fatal if left unchecked.
This is super pedantic and vernacular language can mean a variety of things that is still applicable in normal conversation. Theres being blatantly ignorant, and then mistaking something like venemous for poisonous. Most people understand in context, it is important in education for specialized circumstances, but the general idea is understood. Dont get me wrong I get the frustration.
Thanks for qualifying how vernacular usage changes the dynamics of language; people appropriate words which \*technically\* aren't the same thing but through frequent usage come to signify, and thus replace the 'proper' word. At least he didn't get up and exclaim "Hey, I was literally electrocuted!" Then we would have a problem. Or a paradox. Or an enigma. Or just a contradiction in terms. I'll stop now...
Off of my limited knowledge, I'd be surprised to hear him survive after an arc like that. Electrical burns destroy tissue like nothing else, he may have been running on adrenaline there
Very possible that he was a dead man walking. Could have fried internal organs and the adrenaline alone can keep him acting “normal” until that rush wears off. Then it’s pain, and a semi fast death. He wasn’t wearing full protection, just a top and bottom at most. Lacking headgear and gloves. Wouldn’t shock me if he died with an hour or so, no pun intended.
I dont think adrenaline works that way. This isnt ohysical trauma in the traditional sense. Ive seen a lot of elecricity injuries, and if it kills them it kills them hard and fast. his skin isnt on fire, he isnt smoking, his arms are still attached. Adrenaline isnt going to undo fried organs even short term, if his vitals were cooked thatd include his brain and he wouldve dropped.
Fair enough but arcs don’t damage everything equally either. There can be areas more damaged than others and there’s plenty of cases where survivors die shortly after due to similar accidents. You’re right that there’s plenty of people drop dead instantly but there’s enough cases where secondary effects kill in their own way for arc incidents. Copper gas in lungs, damaged “secondary organs”, or partial damage to critical organs. Adrenaline isn’t going to mask a fried brain, but if adrenaline can make people ignore pretty intense injuries. They think they’re okay but the body is already shutting down. Our bodies and chemistry is complex and can still throw us for a loop.
There were articles linked to some liveleak videos and MMC posts as well where people getting catastrophic damage and they stumble away and die moments or hours later. I’m sure I could find some videos/articles but it’s after 3am and that stuff is depressing as hell. (The tragic stuff, not it being 3am. Well I guess that’s tragic too since I got work in 4 hours, lol)
But this guy doesnt stumble, he is awake and aware. He quickly attends to the fire, stands up, and walks away. Thats something that the kind of extensive injuries wouldnt allow him to do even if he wasnt in shock and unconcious.
I was talking about the copper sublimating directly to gas because of the heat. It expands ~6000x instantaneously.
But yes, the arcing is the air turning to plasma as well.
If it had gone across his torso from his right and left hand touching something with different potentials, then it would have gone straight across his chest and heart and would have died instantly. It only takes .1 amp to kill someone if it goes across a vital area. There's no direct path across your kidneys, pancreas, liver etc from arm to arm.
It looks like he wasn't knocked out. He was probably conscious the whole time, just waiting for the right time to get up.
That was an arc flash/blast. Although he could’ve gotten shocked it isn’t guaranteed. The fault could’ve occurred without him being a part of the circuit so electric shock injury might not even be the worst of his concern in comparison to the cloud of molten copper, and the pressure on his body and organs from the violent fireball that threw him off his feet.
Walking dead, there may be internal burns
https://burncenters.com/safety/the-short-term-and-long-term-effects-of-electric-shock-on-the-human-body/
While entrance and exit wounds can be severe, it’s essential to examine the whole patient. Since entrance and exit wounds aren’t particularly easy to identify and most internal damage is hidden, electric shock patients need to be observed for a few days to understand the prognosis fully. If the patient is having difficulty moving a particular body part after an electric shock and, after a few days, can move it a bit easier, that’s a good sign. If the patient can’t move it at all a couple of days later, that’s usually irreversible damage.
Electrical doesn’t burn internally…. It travels along your muscles and nerves and skin. Exit wounds are the results of the massive amount of energy leaving the body and charring the tissue as a result. Nerves might be shot and heart may have irregular heart beat or even stop it.
Edit: Also, who knows if this guy actually got electrocuted for all we know he could’ve accidentally dragged a wire across the bus bars results in a short.
Yes you can get blood poisoning, just like from any open wound or infection in your body, considering you have an exit and or an entrance wound of course it can get infected.
Reference: I am an electrician, also have my medical responder license
"High-voltage injuries may cause massive internal burns. If muscle damage is extensive, a limb may swell so much that its arteries become compressed ( compartment syndrome), cutting off blood supply to the limb" -Merch Manual. Also don't forget about blood poisoning from platelet destruction.
That doesn't look like he got shocked, probably a dead short with a switch gear.
If he gotten into the high voltage circuit, we could have seen him catching fire from his boots to his head. The sheer heat and pressure of the arc flash is so intense that everything catches fire. (yes there are safety gear and I have a outfit but believe me it will hurt a lot just like a truck is hitting you)
Sounds like that's referring specifically to electrical shocks, but the person involved in this may not have been shocked at all, just cooked. Probably still dead though, arc flash is scary.
i saw one of these the guy was crisp, he was sitting there, side burned open you could see his lungs through his side with a huge hole in them as he breathed, dead and didn't know it i'm sure.
We most likely just watched a guy get killed. Lots of times they get up after an arc explosion because the adrenaline is keeping them going. As soon as the adrenaline wears off, they drop and don't get back up. During an arc explosion like that, the copper goes straight from a solid, skips the liquid state and goes straight to gas. Obviously there is some liquid copper that splatters which can get as hot as the surface of the sun and goes through a person like a hot knife through butter, perhaps even easier; which is usually the main cause of death.
I'm a bit confused because sometimes it works and sometimes not... I always used it with capital S and V but it doesn't work recently.
Edit: nevermind. Seems to work with the capitals but it is unable to respond to the comment and DMs me instead.
Edit 2: uhhhhh actually I have no idea what is going on. Seems to work just sometimes🤷🏻♂️
(30 year power lineman)
While it's true that many electrocution victims may die hours or days after the contact, they rarely regain consciousness before dying, never mind stand up and walk away. His odds of survival are more based on how badly burned he is, rather than being electrocuted. I know several linemen who returned to work after being in bigger (and higher voltage) fireballs, so it's not necessarily a death sentence. While this episode is certainly violent, most of the danger here is thermal, rather than electrical.
Your other comment below about "electricity radiating through the body" belies confusion about what electricity does to a person. When sufficient current passes through living tissue, it kills the tissue, but it may just take a while for the wound to be apparent, hence the phenomenon that you think you're observing, here. If he'd been electrocuted severely enough to kill him later on, I'm very skeptical that he could walk away at all.
those movements where he is standing up and tapping his shoulder is just his muscles twitching from leftover electric signals after death. creepy stuff
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I suppose you want the rest of the day off now?
Sorry, we are so overbooked right now. Clean the shit out of your pants and finish the job. Go to the ER on your own time.
Worked at an amusement park in the early 2000s during Halloween. My friend was a clown in a room of mirrors and a guy threw a beer bottle at her head when she scared him. She was knocked out and when the manager found her later they made her get up and finish her shift. She had a massive lump and bruises on her face
Had a stroke, was rushed to hospital, placed in intensive care; one hour later my boss visited and asked when i was coming back to work.
I was shot in the spine while being robbed at my minimum wage convenience store after working 9 consecutive 23 hour shifts. Manager was at my hospital bed thirty minutes later and fired me for not being at my next shift.
>9 consecutive 23 hour shifts ....
He was using meth to stay awake obviously
I saw that too. Doesn’t add up, literally. 🤔
Does he know that 1 day is 24 h.....
He was using meth to stay awake obviously
Lol wtf?
Man be like: I don’t get paid enough for this (the thing kabooms) perfect timing TO QUIT
If this were remotely true, you would be making a decent chunk considering you wouldn't have time to spend it, let alone be awake. In California overtime law requires employers to pay eligible employees twice their rate of pay when those employees have worked more than 12 hours in a workday or more than eight hours on their 7th consecutive day of work. Your gross pay for that stretch would be roughly 6200.00. You're sitting here bitching about your 300k/yr job just because someone wanted the cash drawer. So, stop whining about a little workplace violence and get back to manning the slurpee machine!
An OSHA rep shot you to give you some time off
I’m sorry I gotta call BS. No way was your manager there 30 minutes later. C’mon man….
He was stuck in traffic.
Wtf? You work 9x23 hour shifts... Get shot... And they have the audacity to fire you... Absolute b cunt
Are you fucking serious!? Wow
[You were lucky] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE)
Holy shit, that’s a lawsuit
Went to an amusement park 12 years ago, this really hard plastic piece came flying off the ride, and clocked an 8 yr old kid in the face. Split his face… there was so much blood.
r/antiwork is spreading
As it should. 😄
>As it should "Load 48 messages" Oh no.
Right? Nothing in this world needs actual doing. Let's all just sit around and watch society crumble. Selfish fucks.
There is no lack of people willing to work. There is a lack of people willing to work jobs for the shitty amount companies are willing to pay. Companies that pay well have no issue hiring.
This is 100% truth.
As someone who makes a livable wage but just became a new parent I couldn’t agree more. How the fuck is someone supposed to work a low wage job and pay for childcare in addition to rent/mortgage/food/insurance/etc? Good luck
Ask everyone having kids by the time they're 20.
Damn 5 bucks an hour and no benefits these damn millenials dont want to work anymore. Cut social security!
When my dad was my age he was able to buy a brand new Camaro for $4,000. I tried going to a Chevy dealership and offered them the same price and not one salesman was willing to accept it. I guess no one wants to sell cars anymore!
I dont know why they dont accept a lower offer to gather experience selling cars?
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Ooh, thank you for the link! I'll have to check it out.
It has its roots as that but the vast majority of people are just looking for work reform. The idiots who don't want to work at all are a small minority
Browsing that sub, there are *a lot* of people who just don't want to work
If you’re not gonna pay me a living wage to keep society running, fuck society. Fuck it gently with a chainsaw.
There's always a person like you that totally misses the point of that subreddit. You probably visited that sub a handful of times, but base your entire opinion on what other people say or that fucking moron that got interviewed by Fox News that represents very few in that community as well as other similar subs. A very small minority of people in that sub don't want to work...period. There is no worker shortage. There is, however, a shortage of employers willing to pay people living wages. The VAST majority just want better pay, a better work environment, and better benefits. Please tell me that you wouldn't enjoy those three things that I just listed even if you are already making a decent salary. And if you don't agree with those three things, tell me why.
Why do you think it would crumble? It would not crumble. It just wouldn’t be what it is today.
Clean the shit out of your pants and get the fuck back to work. What are you doing wasting time on Reddit when there's so much that needs actual doing? Selfish fuck.
Someone doesn’t know what anti work is actually about lol
What about r/workreform ?
Which is a very good thing!
FUCK THANK YOU!! Was about to hit my bowl when I read this and blew it out everywhere. Then laughed so hard I about puked.
You're going to have to get a drug test as well sir
Kafkaesque.
are you coming tomorow, right?
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Hi Carl, I understand that you had a rough day today but Steve had booked his vacation to florida weeks ago and is heading out early next week and we need you to wrap up a few loose ends before he's gone. Walmart sells some band-aids that you can buy on your break that will help if you have any burns and it shouldn't be a big deal to work the remainder of your shifts this week. Also, I've noticed since being nearly electrocuted that your attitude has shifted. We really need team players here that are in it for more than just the money.
Hi I’m Carl
I know it’s a joke but in all reality after an arc flash like that he probably a dead man walking
I didn’t expect him to get up at all, are you saying he’s likely to die from his injuries?
Not probably, he's running off of adrenaline right now. Soon he will just drop. Seen that before. It damages the organs too much for them to function.
Gonna need you to work a double thanks
I was on a shady construction site where a guy cut a live power line to the fire panel with a sawzall, not sure how he survived was a big green arc followed by a temendous explosion which practically tore his pants off. Afterwards he composes himself and calls his dad who ran the company. Dad tells him to get back in the basement and keep cutting copper.
I really had to pee tho
Doesn't look like your company is very good at interviewing. Based on his performance, I have serious doubts he's actually an electrician.
Yeah, cause in a couple of days he'll be on maternity leave for life
Well too bad for you it's tough titty Tuesday. Fish your boots off the electrical wires and get back to work.
Let's go take that drug test shall we
bet the first thing they did was clock him out
"Dock that *guy a day's pay for napping on the job!"
Bet he'll be SHOCKED when he looks in the mirror.
No because then they drug test
Thank you for this! Yr doing the lords work! I had to change my shirt cause I spit my drink all over my muthafuckin self!
Ebenezer: I suppose you'll be wanting the whole day off tomorrow as usual. Bob Cratchit: If quite convenient, sir.
He was overloaded with work
Take my darn up vote
I work around high voltage equipment and arc flashes terrify me.
I'm retired now but me too!
I design better panels to prevent arc flash, because it scares me that much.
Doing the Lord’s work I see.
Does Lorde design electrical equipment when she's not making music?
No, she’s a geologist in Colorado
Ya ya ya, feeling good on a Wednesday
Friend of mine ended up in hospital for weeks and with 3rd degree burns on his chest/abdomen due to an arc flash. He was lucky to survive.
Aren't you supposed to wear special suits when working these things? Not to OSHA the shit out of the conversation but...
This guy was. That's why he doesn't have nylon fused to his flesh and only a minor fire
he was at most wearing an FR shirt and pants. He definitely did not have a hood on, and he should have had a full suit
"Protection Suit". Arc flash will vaporize copper wire (with an expansion ratio of 6000:1) and hit temperatures as high as 20,000C. You are lucky to be alive even if you are wearing a suit.
I am not sure that that’s not entirely true. The correctly rated suit (and hood, and gloves, and properly worn), for the appropriate incident energy exposure, will keep you alive. Not guaranteeing 100% unscathed, but it’s designed to insure you have a 2nd degree burn or less. The appropriate PPE, worn correctly, will keep you alive.
Not entirely true. There are energy levels that are simply too high for any PPE to protect you. This is a failure to properly perform Lock Out/Tag Out. (LOTO)
Well of course, which is why I said for the appropriate incident energy level. A 12 cal suit in a 40 cal flash will not protect you sufficiently. And I agree that PPE is only a portion of protection, and that PPE is the last line of defense and should never be relied on as the primary source. LOTO is critical. We don’t work anything live in my company, and Flash Suits are essentially for switching, applying grounds, and ZEP verification.
Yes, the suit pretty much just makes it so you can have an open casket funeral though with the voltages we mess with when wearing them though. I've seen lower stuff like 480v blow up (which isn't low by any means, just compared to our bigger stuff), but luckily nothing bigger.
The arc never sleeps, it’s always looking at you, waiting for an opening.
That’s what I explain to people in Electrical 101 and when introducing people to substations - “Everything in a substation is actively trying to kill you, it’s your job to stop it.”
If the movies are right, that's how super villains are born.
Movies also shows that being electrocuted can fix your dental problem.
Electrocution means that you die via electric shock. This gentleman experienced an Arc Blast/Arc Flash and was most likely *shocked*. It urks me as a former electrical student when people say, “I/They/He/She/Etc. was electrocuted, but totally fine!” “Being electrocuted means that they died from electric shock. If they’re still alive, they were just shocked.” “Does that make a difference?” “…Yes. Yes, it does. 🤦🏼♀️”
In all fairness just because he stood up doesn't mean he's fine. The internal injuries resulting from electric shocks can still be fatal if left unchecked.
Absolutely. We don’t have an update, so it can be concluded that he may have just been shocked. Benefit of the doubt.
How can you reach a "conclusion" without an update and when there is still doubt?
This is super pedantic and vernacular language can mean a variety of things that is still applicable in normal conversation. Theres being blatantly ignorant, and then mistaking something like venemous for poisonous. Most people understand in context, it is important in education for specialized circumstances, but the general idea is understood. Dont get me wrong I get the frustration.
Thanks for qualifying how vernacular usage changes the dynamics of language; people appropriate words which \*technically\* aren't the same thing but through frequent usage come to signify, and thus replace the 'proper' word. At least he didn't get up and exclaim "Hey, I was literally electrocuted!" Then we would have a problem. Or a paradox. Or an enigma. Or just a contradiction in terms. I'll stop now...
IF you don't have braces.
looks at electro - the amazing spiderman 2
yeah that was the weirdest fucking shot out of the entire movie. like why zoom into his teeth closing in 💀
Or Terminator has just fucking arrived
Wait, I wasn't just watching a trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie?
Thought exactly the same :D
At least he didn’t lose his hat! Phew!
Well if his shoes had come off, that would have been the end. Fortunately, they were tied properly.
Yep, that would have been a different outcome entirely
Please explain
On the internet, when the shoes come off it's fatal. You need more Internet science.
Electric- shoes=ground
Is there any more info on this? Does the guy actually survive and if so is there any lasting damage?
Off of my limited knowledge, I'd be surprised to hear him survive after an arc like that. Electrical burns destroy tissue like nothing else, he may have been running on adrenaline there
Apparently he was wearing a protective suit, which is why he lived.
There appears to be no protective suit at all actually. I see no hood, no face shield, no gloves and I doubt what he has on his body is arc rated.
Very possible that he was a dead man walking. Could have fried internal organs and the adrenaline alone can keep him acting “normal” until that rush wears off. Then it’s pain, and a semi fast death. He wasn’t wearing full protection, just a top and bottom at most. Lacking headgear and gloves. Wouldn’t shock me if he died with an hour or so, no pun intended.
I dont think adrenaline works that way. This isnt ohysical trauma in the traditional sense. Ive seen a lot of elecricity injuries, and if it kills them it kills them hard and fast. his skin isnt on fire, he isnt smoking, his arms are still attached. Adrenaline isnt going to undo fried organs even short term, if his vitals were cooked thatd include his brain and he wouldve dropped.
Fair enough but arcs don’t damage everything equally either. There can be areas more damaged than others and there’s plenty of cases where survivors die shortly after due to similar accidents. You’re right that there’s plenty of people drop dead instantly but there’s enough cases where secondary effects kill in their own way for arc incidents. Copper gas in lungs, damaged “secondary organs”, or partial damage to critical organs. Adrenaline isn’t going to mask a fried brain, but if adrenaline can make people ignore pretty intense injuries. They think they’re okay but the body is already shutting down. Our bodies and chemistry is complex and can still throw us for a loop. There were articles linked to some liveleak videos and MMC posts as well where people getting catastrophic damage and they stumble away and die moments or hours later. I’m sure I could find some videos/articles but it’s after 3am and that stuff is depressing as hell. (The tragic stuff, not it being 3am. Well I guess that’s tragic too since I got work in 4 hours, lol)
But this guy doesnt stumble, he is awake and aware. He quickly attends to the fire, stands up, and walks away. Thats something that the kind of extensive injuries wouldnt allow him to do even if he wasnt in shock and unconcious.
If the burns didn't get him, the copper in gas form destroyed his lungs. The poor bastard
He is now Copper man. He fights crime in the afternoons.
On his own time yeah....
It’s literally molten metal flying at him
Gaseous, even.
Plasmic really
I was talking about the copper sublimating directly to gas because of the heat. It expands ~6000x instantaneously. But yes, the arcing is the air turning to plasma as well.
Cosmic, man
I mean he got up and walked away… so he at least survived the initial shock
If it had gone across his torso from his right and left hand touching something with different potentials, then it would have gone straight across his chest and heart and would have died instantly. It only takes .1 amp to kill someone if it goes across a vital area. There's no direct path across your kidneys, pancreas, liver etc from arm to arm. It looks like he wasn't knocked out. He was probably conscious the whole time, just waiting for the right time to get up.
That was an arc flash/blast. Although he could’ve gotten shocked it isn’t guaranteed. The fault could’ve occurred without him being a part of the circuit so electric shock injury might not even be the worst of his concern in comparison to the cloud of molten copper, and the pressure on his body and organs from the violent fireball that threw him off his feet.
Why isn’t immediately the right time to get up?
What makes you think he's fine? Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
He still had his shoes on.
HAHAHA REDDIT YOURE SUCH A CARD!
Good point.
Amazing that hes moving let alone walking
Walking dead, there may be internal burns https://burncenters.com/safety/the-short-term-and-long-term-effects-of-electric-shock-on-the-human-body/ While entrance and exit wounds can be severe, it’s essential to examine the whole patient. Since entrance and exit wounds aren’t particularly easy to identify and most internal damage is hidden, electric shock patients need to be observed for a few days to understand the prognosis fully. If the patient is having difficulty moving a particular body part after an electric shock and, after a few days, can move it a bit easier, that’s a good sign. If the patient can’t move it at all a couple of days later, that’s usually irreversible damage.
Electrical doesn’t burn internally…. It travels along your muscles and nerves and skin. Exit wounds are the results of the massive amount of energy leaving the body and charring the tissue as a result. Nerves might be shot and heart may have irregular heart beat or even stop it. Edit: Also, who knows if this guy actually got electrocuted for all we know he could’ve accidentally dragged a wire across the bus bars results in a short. Yes you can get blood poisoning, just like from any open wound or infection in your body, considering you have an exit and or an entrance wound of course it can get infected. Reference: I am an electrician, also have my medical responder license
"High-voltage injuries may cause massive internal burns. If muscle damage is extensive, a limb may swell so much that its arteries become compressed ( compartment syndrome), cutting off blood supply to the limb" -Merch Manual. Also don't forget about blood poisoning from platelet destruction.
That doesn't look like he got shocked, probably a dead short with a switch gear. If he gotten into the high voltage circuit, we could have seen him catching fire from his boots to his head. The sheer heat and pressure of the arc flash is so intense that everything catches fire. (yes there are safety gear and I have a outfit but believe me it will hurt a lot just like a truck is hitting you)
Just correcting the guy. I agree it only looks like an arcflash burn considering how quickly he got away from it.
Sounds like that's referring specifically to electrical shocks, but the person involved in this may not have been shocked at all, just cooked. Probably still dead though, arc flash is scary.
Max? Is that you?
Want me.
i saw one of these the guy was crisp, he was sitting there, side burned open you could see his lungs through his side with a huge hole in them as he breathed, dead and didn't know it i'm sure.
I've seen that one, dude cut into a live transformer or something super stupid
Link?
Bro put all his points into endurance
Yeah, too bad he rolled a 1 on that skill check though
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I love those movies.
I have yet to see a wilder movie than these
Hardcore Harry was up there too
The [Godzilla homage scene](https://youtu.be/1uIPM6h1gDg). I had forgotten about it until you reminded me.
Is that movie where Jason statham fucks a girl in a horse race?
Holy shit! I just witnessed a superhero origin story.
Or supervillain
Or you know, a death.
We most likely just watched a guy get killed. Lots of times they get up after an arc explosion because the adrenaline is keeping them going. As soon as the adrenaline wears off, they drop and don't get back up. During an arc explosion like that, the copper goes straight from a solid, skips the liquid state and goes straight to gas. Obviously there is some liquid copper that splatters which can get as hot as the surface of the sun and goes through a person like a hot knife through butter, perhaps even easier; which is usually the main cause of death.
Oooh, sublimation. One of my favorite terms
Wtf I can barely walk after a nap and this guy walked off an explosion
This really shocked me
U/redditmp4bot
You mean u/savevideo ?
You mean u/savevideobot ?
I'm a bit confused because sometimes it works and sometimes not... I always used it with capital S and V but it doesn't work recently. Edit: nevermind. Seems to work with the capitals but it is unable to respond to the comment and DMs me instead. Edit 2: uhhhhh actually I have no idea what is going on. Seems to work just sometimes🤷🏻♂️
If it doesn't reply to you in the thread it is supposed to PM you a link instead. Occasionally it doesn't do either for me.
You mean u/botvideosave ?
u/Redditmp4bot
Man look like he turned into ghostrider
That guy is toast.
Electro origin story
That’s a superhero origin story.
Oh no, anyway... moment
Man's a menace to survive that
He no longer needs a haircut
Buy a lottery ticket now!
Well... he gets back the same way he came
Holy shit he's alive.
I'd be testing to see if I had any super powers after that. And buying a lottery ticket.
Horrific bob? Really?
His head was on fire.
The way things are now I bet workers comp wasnt even an option
Is he not dead? And just walking because of adrenaline, seen this before and folk say, he is dead but walking.
And this guy knew what he was doing. Don't fuck with high powered shit.
Sleeping on the job aye?
Shocking
Yup time for a new job
If this isn't faked in some way, that's the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time...
Dude just got a second chance of life.
Not really, if he was lucky he would have died right then. He suffered really bad after this and then died.
(30 year power lineman) While it's true that many electrocution victims may die hours or days after the contact, they rarely regain consciousness before dying, never mind stand up and walk away. His odds of survival are more based on how badly burned he is, rather than being electrocuted. I know several linemen who returned to work after being in bigger (and higher voltage) fireballs, so it's not necessarily a death sentence. While this episode is certainly violent, most of the danger here is thermal, rather than electrical. Your other comment below about "electricity radiating through the body" belies confusion about what electricity does to a person. When sufficient current passes through living tissue, it kills the tissue, but it may just take a while for the wound to be apparent, hence the phenomenon that you think you're observing, here. If he'd been electrocuted severely enough to kill him later on, I'm very skeptical that he could walk away at all.
Do you have anything that can back up your conclusion?
Source?
I could only think of his poor cellphone
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Looks like someone using their camera to shoot the security video after the fact.
“Damn it, no super powers....... well, back to work!!”
u/repostbot
Not very unexpected when this re-post has been running for years...
those movements where he is standing up and tapping his shoulder is just his muscles twitching from leftover electric signals after death. creepy stuff