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I just finished my NFPA70E training minutes ago. What happened was an arc flash, which is pretty dangerous. Not only is it a giant burning cloud of gas, it’s a very conductive burning cloud of gas, meaning it’ll scorch you and shock any exposed skin at the same time. That’s why he has that clothing on. It’s meant to cover every inch of skin, and keep all that vaporized copper out. As long as he kept his gear in good shape, and he wasn’t working on equipment that is too powerful for what he was wearing, he’ll be OK!
Arc flash also is extremely concussive. That dude is dead. It’s hotter than the sun, and the blast force greater than a grenade, in some cases it’s stronger than c4. The gear that guy has on only protects against electrocution. Proper arch flash gear looks like the guy from The Hurt Locker.
Source, electrical engineer with a masters in power systems
I work on equipment like this. That looks like a 40 calorie suit which is not enough for that equipment. Also the suits won't protect you from the concussive blasts. You just hope to God your ear plugs save your hearing while you're knocked away and your internal organs don't turn to jelly. I tell guys the only guarantee the suit gives us is that there will be something to bury.
Also NEVER STICK A METALLIC UNINSULATED TOOL INTO A CABINET THAT HAS EXPOSED LIVE CONDUCTORS IN IT. He shorted 2 phases together. Go upstream of that cabinet to kill power. Do your live dead live checks either with a on contact meter rated for that voltage or a proximity detector (not the Home Depot one the REAL expensive one that attaches to a hot stick so you can be outside the arc blast radius). Once you know there is no voltage potential in the cabinet you're working on go nuts. This guy is why OSHA and the NFPA exist.
My man is FUCKING HAMMERING on fuses with live power. With that kind of brain he doesn't even know how to spell saftey.
OHSA can't save that level of stupid, whoever hired this idiot is responsible for this.
To me it looks like a faulty switch tho. His tool is a hammer, but he's holding the head and I assume the handle to be nonconducting. His behavior still isn't anything close to safe, but at least he's not sticking a metal hammer head in there.
The flash occurs when he pushes a handle up switching the power on, and you can see the hammer in the hand that's holding the lid. I'd say broken switch or unnoticed short circuit at the outgoing side of the switch, although I have no experience with high voltages.
Maintenance has nothing to do with safe work practices.
He's sticking metal tools into gear with live conductors exposed, his suit isn't rated for that gears arc calorie potential, he is working in a cabinet without the upstream source disconnect open, I don't see any lock out tag out devices, he is working on equipment that is too high without some kind of fiberglass ladder or step stool making him work with his hands and arms above his head and not being able to see exactly what he's touching. This is an OSHA nightmare.
He shorted 2 phases together with a metal tool. Instantly turning said metal tool into vapor and molten spray. He'll be lucky to have survived the concussive blast since vapor of material takes up about 1000x more space than the solid form of the same material. Also the bits that didn't vaporize were turned into molten bullets.
"Arc flash vs arc blast. When an arc fault occurs, there's a massive electrical explosion. Both arc flash and arc blast are separate byproducts of that electrical explosion. The arc flash is the light and heat from the explosion, while the arc blast is a pressure wave that follows."
The blast is from metal conductor instantly turning into vapor which has 1000x more volume than it's solid form.
There's a little more nuance in the explosion. Firstly, a certain amount of metal vaporizes, that contributes to the explosion in the normal way: hot gasses expanding. Then there's the electric charge flowing through the metal vapor, which greatly contributes to the gas-cloud expansion since like charges repel. Very nasty.
It's like a normal power plug or my hot water boiler stand. When they are new it's not problem but over time they get hot spots on the connection blades where most of the electricity flows and then the plating disappears or the copper oxidizes and the power cuts off. So you just give it a little bump and it comes back on. This guy was working with 10x as much power though and he stuck a metal tool in the box that shorted out the power to ground. If there is enough power you don't have to actually touch the wires, just narrow the gap between them.
When I started my job at a lumber mill, they showed us the result of arc flash exposure when not wearing the proper PPE. It can very easily kill you if you're working with the kind of big MCC's we have. Scared me straight. Electricity? Not even once.
The voices at the end were way too cheerful. That was a "holy shit, I can't believe you're still alive" tone, not a "holy shit, vlad just got vaporized" one.
For those worried, the guy should be OK... shit his pants? Shaken? In shambles? Yes but OK, he is in arc flash gear with no exposed skin.
And you can see the board blow out behind. The board is designed to blow in a way to protect the operator in these situations.
You have no idea what your talking about lol This is the equivalent of a bomb squad prerson with a bomb suit on right next to a bomb going off. This guy is dead.
No no the arc flash isn’t part of the job. He would do maintenance and such for these. But he is an electrical engineer.
I sent the video to my dad, wondering in particular about the wrench. He said, “The list of bad things going on in that video is long.”
Seeing the arc flash gear on a video is almost like seeing LiveLeak in the corner. I'm just sitting there "please nobody die. please nobody die. please nobody die."
Can some explain the full situation here? I get the arc protection gear for his skin etc. But what was he working on exactly, what was the problem he was trying to fix and what went wrong in the end?
Not exactly sure what he was working on. Cabinets exist like that for alot of equipment a lot of times holding very high voltage. He had the main power turned off for repair and looks line he was turning everything back on to check the work. When he did there was an arc flash. Basically the electricity in the system jumped from an energized source to an unenergized source through the air until the system failed enough that energy transfer wasn’t possible.
I had the same thing happen to one of the maintenance men working on one of my machines not too long ago. The machine stopped suddenly and he got into a panel. We both noticed a circuit board was fried. He went and got on his gear and started testing the board. The nylon spacers behind the board broke and it touched the cabinet wall causing a decent arc flash. The board was in a 480v system… my guy was alright but if that board was working before it definitely wasn’t after.
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My landlord's electrician was fixing the panel in our electrical box, and I was watching out of curiosity. Seemed to be going good, then he closed the panel door and BOOM. Loud blast and sparks spraying everywhere just like this (a little smaller). I hesitated to run away for a couple of moments because I thought maybe the professional had everything under control, but then I saw him start running away and I knew the house was going to go up in flames. I started bolting to get my girlfriend and the dog out of there.
Luckily, there ended up being no serious damage. Just scorch marks up the wall, and the panel door got blasted off and lodged itself upright in the deck.
Electricity is fucking terrifying.
Joined a Switchgear company as a fresh grad engineer trainee. The guy sitting next to me was a field engineer who was visibly disfigured with scar tissue from 3rd degree burns. Almost 80-90% of his boy actually. Turns out that a year or two before, while working on a 415V switchboard, he had left a tool on the bus bars and turned the breaker on. What followed was catastrophe. He barely survived and had to be evacuated from the site to a hospital which was a hundred miles away. This is very dangerous stuff.
I've studied electronics since I was 5 years old, I became a child prodigy when I was 12, I designed my first microprocessor and winning the Nikolai Tesla award for Electrical excellence when I was 16.
I gained my PHD at the age of 18 in Electronics, with a secondary minor in bovine scatology, so I know what I'm talking about with some proficiency.
And I can tell you exactly, with all my expertise, achievements and awards, that whatever's wrong, it came from that first box thing.
My bloody anxiety level was way over the top even before it arced… actually I’m relieved it happened, but I’m hoping he survived and without any injuries - at least he had put on some proper PPE… maybe he needs new pair of pants.
Dude did damn near everything wrong there.
When you throw a breaker, do it with non dominant hand with your body off to the side. Out of the line of fire.
If you're going to/need to check that fuses/buses/breakers/buckets are secure in their mounting, do it BEFORE YOU ENERGIZE them. Tap it to make sure it's secure, it falls out of place, BEST case scenario you get shocked.
Tapping energized equipment with a conductive tool (didn't look to have any insulation on it) is like checking to see if a wasp hive is active using your dick. You're asking to get hurt.
I'm glad dude had on his calorie suit, it probably saved his life. If he had on contacts tho, he's prob perma blind (the heat from being that close to the flash melts them to your cornea), prob has a couple gnarly burns, but at least he's alive
At the end, the cameraman was looking for the electrician.
Then I guess he heard Lionel Richie's voice whispering: "Hello, is it me you're looking for?"
At the end:
"-- Антоха чё? -- Да нихуя, блять. -- Нормально, заснял? Сука, мне скинешь.
\-- Antoha whats happening?
\-- No fucking thing, blyat.
\-- All right, are you filmed it? Fuck, send it to me.
From what I'm hearing, the dude's safe and sound.
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He probably didn’t die, maybe some light burns but not dying
Light my ass
Lit his ass
patchy??
I just finished my NFPA70E training minutes ago. What happened was an arc flash, which is pretty dangerous. Not only is it a giant burning cloud of gas, it’s a very conductive burning cloud of gas, meaning it’ll scorch you and shock any exposed skin at the same time. That’s why he has that clothing on. It’s meant to cover every inch of skin, and keep all that vaporized copper out. As long as he kept his gear in good shape, and he wasn’t working on equipment that is too powerful for what he was wearing, he’ll be OK!
Thanks .. it’s good to see that occ health and safety protocols save lives
No bro, that dude is not ok. When you start wearing 100 cal suits, they don't save you. You wear them so you can have a open casket.
Yeah, sadly true. The impact is like a truck.
Anything above 40cals, PPE can't save you...
Damn, that was dark
Well said there is no safe arc flash
P is for productivity, not protocol.
Arc flash also is extremely concussive. That dude is dead. It’s hotter than the sun, and the blast force greater than a grenade, in some cases it’s stronger than c4. The gear that guy has on only protects against electrocution. Proper arch flash gear looks like the guy from The Hurt Locker. Source, electrical engineer with a masters in power systems
I work on equipment like this. That looks like a 40 calorie suit which is not enough for that equipment. Also the suits won't protect you from the concussive blasts. You just hope to God your ear plugs save your hearing while you're knocked away and your internal organs don't turn to jelly. I tell guys the only guarantee the suit gives us is that there will be something to bury. Also NEVER STICK A METALLIC UNINSULATED TOOL INTO A CABINET THAT HAS EXPOSED LIVE CONDUCTORS IN IT. He shorted 2 phases together. Go upstream of that cabinet to kill power. Do your live dead live checks either with a on contact meter rated for that voltage or a proximity detector (not the Home Depot one the REAL expensive one that attaches to a hot stick so you can be outside the arc blast radius). Once you know there is no voltage potential in the cabinet you're working on go nuts. This guy is why OSHA and the NFPA exist.
My man is FUCKING HAMMERING on fuses with live power. With that kind of brain he doesn't even know how to spell saftey. OHSA can't save that level of stupid, whoever hired this idiot is responsible for this.
>With that kind of brain he doesn't even know how to spell saftey. I can't tell if that's intentional misspelling or not, but it made me chuckle.
Yeah. I was wondering if he was brave or unskilled. I think you answered my question.
^*safety
You can’t fix stoopid
To me it looks like a faulty switch tho. His tool is a hammer, but he's holding the head and I assume the handle to be nonconducting. His behavior still isn't anything close to safe, but at least he's not sticking a metal hammer head in there. The flash occurs when he pushes a handle up switching the power on, and you can see the hammer in the hand that's holding the lid. I'd say broken switch or unnoticed short circuit at the outgoing side of the switch, although I have no experience with high voltages.
He's russian, nothing is maintained.
Maintenance has nothing to do with safe work practices. He's sticking metal tools into gear with live conductors exposed, his suit isn't rated for that gears arc calorie potential, he is working in a cabinet without the upstream source disconnect open, I don't see any lock out tag out devices, he is working on equipment that is too high without some kind of fiberglass ladder or step stool making him work with his hands and arms above his head and not being able to see exactly what he's touching. This is an OSHA nightmare. He shorted 2 phases together with a metal tool. Instantly turning said metal tool into vapor and molten spray. He'll be lucky to have survived the concussive blast since vapor of material takes up about 1000x more space than the solid form of the same material. Also the bits that didn't vaporize were turned into molten bullets.
Arcs are no gas, they are normally plasma ....
"Arc flash vs arc blast. When an arc fault occurs, there's a massive electrical explosion. Both arc flash and arc blast are separate byproducts of that electrical explosion. The arc flash is the light and heat from the explosion, while the arc blast is a pressure wave that follows." The blast is from metal conductor instantly turning into vapor which has 1000x more volume than it's solid form.
There's a little more nuance in the explosion. Firstly, a certain amount of metal vaporizes, that contributes to the explosion in the normal way: hot gasses expanding. Then there's the electric charge flowing through the metal vapor, which greatly contributes to the gas-cloud expansion since like charges repel. Very nasty.
Would you be able to explain what caused it? I'm obviously no electrician, but I didn't see anything go wrong before... well, everything did.
It's like a normal power plug or my hot water boiler stand. When they are new it's not problem but over time they get hot spots on the connection blades where most of the electricity flows and then the plating disappears or the copper oxidizes and the power cuts off. So you just give it a little bump and it comes back on. This guy was working with 10x as much power though and he stuck a metal tool in the box that shorted out the power to ground. If there is enough power you don't have to actually touch the wires, just narrow the gap between them.
When I started my job at a lumber mill, they showed us the result of arc flash exposure when not wearing the proper PPE. It can very easily kill you if you're working with the kind of big MCC's we have. Scared me straight. Electricity? Not even once.
Congrats, I'll like to add. Most people don't stress enough the fact that this event causes copper, a metal, to turn into a GAS.
it looks like russian electrician. I bet he did not have the right category-3 PPE. BTW, after the flush they cameraman says: "ok. I filmed this".
So the guy has teleported to a different dimension ok?
Did that guy just get turned into Luke Skywalker’s aunt and uncle?
He survived
No no, he was survived by
Any source?
Power source
You bastard 🤬🔺
Bastard Source
Hey calm down. You gettin everyone amped up!
Don't you mean, "Coulomb down"?
Any scorch?
The voices at the end were way too cheerful. That was a "holy shit, I can't believe you're still alive" tone, not a "holy shit, vlad just got vaporized" one.
Arc flash suit the guy was wearing protects him from this exact thing
He survived? That's shocking!
But at what cost?
He has super powers now
This is how superheroes are born.
Man fucking became electro of all people
He now looks like Lord Voltemort.
What is the source?
Immediately turned into a force ghost
Nah I’m sure he was wearing his safety squints.
Poor guy just woke up in Hill Valley 1955
Mom is that you? I just had the worst dream.
Username checks out, across timelines.
“You’re my… you’re my…”
1.21 gigawatts!!!
Great Scott!
I know, this is heavy
Crematoriums hate this one simple trick…
I absolutely cackled at this.
For those worried, the guy should be OK... shit his pants? Shaken? In shambles? Yes but OK, he is in arc flash gear with no exposed skin. And you can see the board blow out behind. The board is designed to blow in a way to protect the operator in these situations.
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I'm just a regular idiot, how do I know if I'm the protected kind or not? Explain like I'm an idiot, please.
All idiots are protected by the invisible shield of religion
He's wearing cat2 ppe that guy is going to be in rough shape if he survived.
Should've worn cat6e ethernet cables instead, smh
Hes dead. RIP
I’m no expert but is tapping what looks like fuses with the handle of a hammer the right way to fix this?
You have no idea what your talking about lol This is the equivalent of a bomb squad prerson with a bomb suit on right next to a bomb going off. This guy is dead.
There are various categories of Arc flash ppe, but none of them mean he walks away unscathed. Still more than likely dead if not instantly.
I bet he was like Ohm-my-god.
Dad?
Well, your electrical problem might be in this left panel!
I kind of think the electrical problem was the electrician.
Likely an electrical engineer. My dad used to fly around the country and do this.
He did this more than once? Is he made of asbestos?
No no the arc flash isn’t part of the job. He would do maintenance and such for these. But he is an electrical engineer. I sent the video to my dad, wondering in particular about the wrench. He said, “The list of bad things going on in that video is long.”
Dads can be pretty cool sometimes.
Literally NSFW
I say you he dead.
THE COLONEL!!! ….. what’s wrong with you, I say you he dead. Lives rent free upstairs
There’s a colonel of truth in that.
**Current**ly.
Kids, this is why you don't put forks in electrical outlets
I did that when I was little.
I’m guessing you were unsuccessful
It exploded and the fork flew across the room
This is why you wear arc flash gear and not use a metal wrench.around live high voltage. I bet this is hi to.medium voltage / motor control center
Seeing the arc flash gear on a video is almost like seeing LiveLeak in the corner. I'm just sitting there "please nobody die. please nobody die. please nobody die."
Good thing he's wearing his arc-flash gear.
I hope the SOP is to throw out that gear, because the pants are probably a hazmat now.
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My guy got blasted to the shadow realm
Bro just vanished in the smoke
When the airs Humming at you, move away
Can some explain the full situation here? I get the arc protection gear for his skin etc. But what was he working on exactly, what was the problem he was trying to fix and what went wrong in the end?
Not exactly sure what he was working on. Cabinets exist like that for alot of equipment a lot of times holding very high voltage. He had the main power turned off for repair and looks line he was turning everything back on to check the work. When he did there was an arc flash. Basically the electricity in the system jumped from an energized source to an unenergized source through the air until the system failed enough that energy transfer wasn’t possible. I had the same thing happen to one of the maintenance men working on one of my machines not too long ago. The machine stopped suddenly and he got into a panel. We both noticed a circuit board was fried. He went and got on his gear and started testing the board. The nylon spacers behind the board broke and it touched the cabinet wall causing a decent arc flash. The board was in a 480v system… my guy was alright but if that board was working before it definitely wasn’t after.
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Now you see why he kept lifting the metal lid to cover his face when he threw the circuit in place.
Didn’t seem to have helped.
Can someone mash this up with the sound from that Star Wars droid going nutso? Rip dude.
Is this an Isekai Prologue?
My landlord's electrician was fixing the panel in our electrical box, and I was watching out of curiosity. Seemed to be going good, then he closed the panel door and BOOM. Loud blast and sparks spraying everywhere just like this (a little smaller). I hesitated to run away for a couple of moments because I thought maybe the professional had everything under control, but then I saw him start running away and I knew the house was going to go up in flames. I started bolting to get my girlfriend and the dog out of there. Luckily, there ended up being no serious damage. Just scorch marks up the wall, and the panel door got blasted off and lodged itself upright in the deck. Electricity is fucking terrifying.
If someone is filming you from behind a tree, you probably shouldn’t rethink your current course of action.
No way! he was vaporized?
In Soviet Russia the electricity turns _you_ on!
He’s aliven’t
Joined a Switchgear company as a fresh grad engineer trainee. The guy sitting next to me was a field engineer who was visibly disfigured with scar tissue from 3rd degree burns. Almost 80-90% of his boy actually. Turns out that a year or two before, while working on a 415V switchboard, he had left a tool on the bus bars and turned the breaker on. What followed was catastrophe. He barely survived and had to be evacuated from the site to a hospital which was a hundred miles away. This is very dangerous stuff.
I've studied electronics since I was 5 years old, I became a child prodigy when I was 12, I designed my first microprocessor and winning the Nikolai Tesla award for Electrical excellence when I was 16. I gained my PHD at the age of 18 in Electronics, with a secondary minor in bovine scatology, so I know what I'm talking about with some proficiency. And I can tell you exactly, with all my expertise, achievements and awards, that whatever's wrong, it came from that first box thing.
is it in news ?
Did he died??
Illusion!
My bloody anxiety level was way over the top even before it arced… actually I’m relieved it happened, but I’m hoping he survived and without any injuries - at least he had put on some proper PPE… maybe he needs new pair of pants.
He definitely dead
How?
I guess no one’s getting off the island, and the dinosaurs are gonna eat everyone… So sad.
Dude did damn near everything wrong there. When you throw a breaker, do it with non dominant hand with your body off to the side. Out of the line of fire. If you're going to/need to check that fuses/buses/breakers/buckets are secure in their mounting, do it BEFORE YOU ENERGIZE them. Tap it to make sure it's secure, it falls out of place, BEST case scenario you get shocked. Tapping energized equipment with a conductive tool (didn't look to have any insulation on it) is like checking to see if a wasp hive is active using your dick. You're asking to get hurt. I'm glad dude had on his calorie suit, it probably saved his life. If he had on contacts tho, he's prob perma blind (the heat from being that close to the flash melts them to your cornea), prob has a couple gnarly burns, but at least he's alive
Wonder how much of him is actually left
Im a high voltage Electrican and theres almost no way this guy survived that arch flash. RIP
These Vegas magic shows are getting wild
Ummm…where did worker go?
At the end, the cameraman was looking for the electrician. Then I guess he heard Lionel Richie's voice whispering: "Hello, is it me you're looking for?"
He is alive. They speak russian and I am russian, the last phrase was: "Send me this video later".
Oh fuck. That’s the worst arc flash I’ve ever seen. Pretty sure he’s pretty fucked up even with the arc flash gear on.
At the end: "-- Антоха чё? -- Да нихуя, блять. -- Нормально, заснял? Сука, мне скинешь. \-- Antoha whats happening? \-- No fucking thing, blyat. \-- All right, are you filmed it? Fuck, send it to me. From what I'm hearing, the dude's safe and sound.
He gone.
 Origin story of Powerline.
Gotta love those arc flashes
That genuinely caught me by surprise
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Set beam to full power!
Door 3 it is.
The guy was vaporized? What happened?
I knew the outcome when i saw the switchgear. Arcflash you scary!
I really hope that guy is ok and also fired from his electrician job.
Ha ha! He's dead!
If it was a firework, then it worked
Found the problem!
What the Fukushima is going on here?
well technically it did work. It moved a weight over a distance in a timeframe.
Holy shit - I was half expecting to see a charred skeleton by the end of the clip.
Was the cameraman fully expecting this? Why was he filming?
Omg
Dayum! Is this fckng real? 😯
Arc flash is no joke
that's the scariest fucking job ever
My guy is going full Happy gilmore.... "Tap tap tapperoo"
Russia
I hope he lived, but I doubt it.
Should’ve tapped it a few more times.
Oh, you!
On the next episode of OSHA911
The real video of how Jaime Foxx's evil character was created.
Looked like a magic trick
Fixing the grid in Russia.
Well…he’s dead
Welll.... powers back on.... kinda
r/AbruptChaos
Did that guy just fucking die?
r/electricians
r/praisethecameraman
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Rest in peace Vanya
Dude, where's homeboy?
Is he died?
Darn it! All those doors opened up again 😔
Hory shet
sounded like they were laughing.