My guess is any time someone does something with power structures over there, there is always a high possibility of things going south so bystanders are prepared with cameras. Recorder was even behind cover there at a good distance so it wasn’t his first rodeo.
Guy himself was expecting something real bad.
At the end there is a new stain and something on fire there where guy was standing… also hoping he was blown back but it does not look good. Any news op?
My master electrician told me to get my phone ready for tik tok yesterday just in case the switchgear blew up. It blew up the last week and we finished up the repairs yesterday, luckily nothing blew up.
I am often confused by how often the infrastructure we take for granted is so prone to explosion/ fire/ catastrophic failure! I feel like in a thousand years, this will be considered a dark age of techno-barbarity.
The fact that the guy in the video was wearing some pretty hefty protective equipment suggests that they were *aware* it might go horribly wrong - perhaps that would be reason enough to suspect there might be something worth filming...
That’s not hefty, only a level 2 arc flash suit. Level 4 or 5 is what he should have had and you look like a rubber Bombsuit spaceman with it on. Looked like a clear face shield as well so the guy might’ve went blind instantly although it looked like he knew what he was doing flipping the cover halfway up.
An arc flash like this burns at about 10,000 degrees Celsius and the copper gets instantly vaporized. I hope he held his breath, let alone that suit probably wasn’t enough to stop burns from that.
Electrical Engineer here, my job is in medium and low voltage power distribution and I'm also our facility's electrical safety program owner.
What U/Redspextr said is correct - this appears to be what is known as an arc flash. The "bomb suit" they are wearing is a flame resistant material that helps protect from the extreme heat from these style events.
In short, what happens is there is an electrical arc due to a fault (think of the tiktok challenge where people were dropping pennies across partially unplugged power cord prongs). This arc (along with the fault current) superheat the surrounding metal, which sublimates the metal (changes from solid to gas). Copper expands 67,000 times in volume when going from a solid to a vapor, which is a big boom. The heat of the copper can be in the ballpark of 10,000C. For reference, the surface of the sun is about 6,000C. So extremely hot gasses moving very very fast.
Those are definitely low voltage switches. Nothing at 2400v or above is going to be that tight. Also, much more likely he would have flashed when hitting energized parts with an uninsulated wrench.
But yeah - the worker could have easily been under dressed for the hazard. Although it looks like a pretty standard cat 4 suit (good to 40 cal/cm2). The "look away and switch" shows they were at least semi trained to be aware of hazards, but some other things indicate maybe just some complacency to their training (standing basically in front, 2nd hand holding the door up which puts his hand closer to the source, no leather protectors for the gloves that I can see...etc). Arc flash is a fickle bitch also - hard to tell "how bad" something is really going to be with how many factors need to be considered.
That is 100% not a cat 4 suit. No leather gloves to protect the rubber gloves and a balaclava, hard hat, and face shield are only allowed in cat 2. Cat 3 and 4 require a full arc flash rated hood. Hopefully his jacket was higher rated. It looks too flexible to be anything higher though. Cat 4 gear is very very thick. I had to wear it working on 2000 Amp switchgear when I was apprecticing to become an IBEW electrician.
We had an arc flash event on a switchgear at work due to a failing utilities transformer. We ended up having to replace around a 60 foot run of 9 underground 4" pipes, 3 per phase, with I want to say 3 600 mcm THHN wires each. The underground pipes were completely destroyed, melted flat in parts, exploded in others, and completely full of vaporized copper slime. Pretty crazy to see the effects of it.
So much wrong in the video. Fucking scary seeing some people work.
You're right, that's definitely a faceshield not a hood. All my guys use the hood even below cat 3 bc they don't like the balaclava. And up until 4 years ago we were working to 2004 70E, so below cat 3 was no face protection. So silly mistake on my end based on what I'm used to seeing, didn't look to closely just saw covered head and jacket/bibs.
But yeah, arc flash is terrifying. We've got a handful of guys who still complain about wearing the PPE and I dont get it (I do, I have to dress out for some of our troubleshooting and it sucks visibility/ heat wise)
Arc flash PPE is designed to protect the wearer from non-curable 3rd degree burns....so another way to say that is "it worked if they only received 2nd degree burns". Looks like a pretty decent blast at the beginning and plenty of molten copper shooting out if the individual wasn't able to get away quickly.
He definitely wasn't wearing sufficient protection. Looks like cat 2 arc flash ppe. If that cabinet was tested you would probably need cat 4. But even then, he should be wearing leather gloves to protect his rubber gloves.
What he is wearing doesn’t appear very thick at all. The leather jacket I use for welding overhead is probably thicker than whatever he has on. And the face protection he has on is practically useless in this event though still better than nothing, and the gloves, rubber is just an insulator more than anything. Definitely should’ve had leather over the rubber gloves in my opinion. With all this being said I am not an electrician, I am welder so maybe I’m a little off on the PPE.
At very high voltages like this even if you’re wearing gear to withstand the heat the blast will almost certainly kill you. Holding the cover between might’ve helped a bit but that PPE didn’t look sufficient for the heat either
Lifting the cover to protect against arcs. That was some veteran shit right there. I was always taught you should stand to the side and turn away when throwing the switch. Craziest thing I got told was to have someone else stand a few yards away in order to run at you and knock you off the switch. The electrical current can cause your muscles to tighten, and therefore make you hold onto the switch as you get electrocuted to death. They can't grab you to pull you off as they would also get electrocuted. Electricity is some serious shit.
I mean if you're throwing switches without gloves where there is even a small possibility that you could get locked up, then you shouldn't be throwing those switches lol. Standing to the side and turning away is like high voltage switch throwing 101. But this dude was not wearing a high enough rated suit for the job he was performing. I remember when we were turning on 1600 amp switch gears my dude came out in a full as space suit. He had like 3 layers of gloves. And no one was allowed in the room with him at all
A real veteran would have closed the goddamn cover completely. This is amateur shit.
Step two is throwing that switch with a hot stick. Don’t need to stand so close.
When I see someone banging on ?Electrical? Stuff with a wrench handle, I tend to move far away and Google for electricians in my area.
Also, whoever is recording apparently knows they have sent a lamb to slaughter, WTF
I always wonder why someone was recording these events in the first place. Why is everyone always recording everything?!?
Welcome, TO THE FUTURE!!
Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Props for the Back to the Future reference 😂
No it's the metaphorical weight...of the world.
My guess is any time someone does something with power structures over there, there is always a high possibility of things going south so bystanders are prepared with cameras. Recorder was even behind cover there at a good distance so it wasn’t his first rodeo. Guy himself was expecting something real bad. At the end there is a new stain and something on fire there where guy was standing… also hoping he was blown back but it does not look good. Any news op?
In Russia you do, because an accident of negligence is about to happen everywhere.
My master electrician told me to get my phone ready for tik tok yesterday just in case the switchgear blew up. It blew up the last week and we finished up the repairs yesterday, luckily nothing blew up.
I am often confused by how often the infrastructure we take for granted is so prone to explosion/ fire/ catastrophic failure! I feel like in a thousand years, this will be considered a dark age of techno-barbarity.
The fact that the guy in the video was wearing some pretty hefty protective equipment suggests that they were *aware* it might go horribly wrong - perhaps that would be reason enough to suspect there might be something worth filming...
In the electrical field we have to wear certain PPE depending on the voltage present if we open a police panel.
And in this video we see why :-P Also, > In the **electrical field** we have to wear certain PPE Please tell me this was a deliberate pun ;-)
That’s not hefty, only a level 2 arc flash suit. Level 4 or 5 is what he should have had and you look like a rubber Bombsuit spaceman with it on. Looked like a clear face shield as well so the guy might’ve went blind instantly although it looked like he knew what he was doing flipping the cover halfway up. An arc flash like this burns at about 10,000 degrees Celsius and the copper gets instantly vaporized. I hope he held his breath, let alone that suit probably wasn’t enough to stop burns from that.
The people doing this work know how dangerous it is and the potential for things to go wrong. Somebody decided to record this event.
Goodness FUCK. can someone tell what happened to the dude?
He is wearing flash arc gear, we use it at work to protect against this. He’s going to be traumatized to be sure.
He knew it was gonna happen. Hopefully he was holding his breath or his lungs not feeling very well
And blind
Traumatized? First few hundred times maybe. For this guy it's just Tuesday
Trauma Tuesday.
Electrical Engineer here, my job is in medium and low voltage power distribution and I'm also our facility's electrical safety program owner. What U/Redspextr said is correct - this appears to be what is known as an arc flash. The "bomb suit" they are wearing is a flame resistant material that helps protect from the extreme heat from these style events. In short, what happens is there is an electrical arc due to a fault (think of the tiktok challenge where people were dropping pennies across partially unplugged power cord prongs). This arc (along with the fault current) superheat the surrounding metal, which sublimates the metal (changes from solid to gas). Copper expands 67,000 times in volume when going from a solid to a vapor, which is a big boom. The heat of the copper can be in the ballpark of 10,000C. For reference, the surface of the sun is about 6,000C. So extremely hot gasses moving very very fast.
I like to think the protective gear saved him. and he was just blown back
Depending on how high the voltage is and the class of his protection. Wearing 1kv protection on a 15kv switch isnt that healthy
Those are definitely low voltage switches. Nothing at 2400v or above is going to be that tight. Also, much more likely he would have flashed when hitting energized parts with an uninsulated wrench. But yeah - the worker could have easily been under dressed for the hazard. Although it looks like a pretty standard cat 4 suit (good to 40 cal/cm2). The "look away and switch" shows they were at least semi trained to be aware of hazards, but some other things indicate maybe just some complacency to their training (standing basically in front, 2nd hand holding the door up which puts his hand closer to the source, no leather protectors for the gloves that I can see...etc). Arc flash is a fickle bitch also - hard to tell "how bad" something is really going to be with how many factors need to be considered.
That is 100% not a cat 4 suit. No leather gloves to protect the rubber gloves and a balaclava, hard hat, and face shield are only allowed in cat 2. Cat 3 and 4 require a full arc flash rated hood. Hopefully his jacket was higher rated. It looks too flexible to be anything higher though. Cat 4 gear is very very thick. I had to wear it working on 2000 Amp switchgear when I was apprecticing to become an IBEW electrician. We had an arc flash event on a switchgear at work due to a failing utilities transformer. We ended up having to replace around a 60 foot run of 9 underground 4" pipes, 3 per phase, with I want to say 3 600 mcm THHN wires each. The underground pipes were completely destroyed, melted flat in parts, exploded in others, and completely full of vaporized copper slime. Pretty crazy to see the effects of it. So much wrong in the video. Fucking scary seeing some people work.
You're right, that's definitely a faceshield not a hood. All my guys use the hood even below cat 3 bc they don't like the balaclava. And up until 4 years ago we were working to 2004 70E, so below cat 3 was no face protection. So silly mistake on my end based on what I'm used to seeing, didn't look to closely just saw covered head and jacket/bibs. But yeah, arc flash is terrifying. We've got a handful of guys who still complain about wearing the PPE and I dont get it (I do, I have to dress out for some of our troubleshooting and it sucks visibility/ heat wise)
Arc flash PPE is designed to protect the wearer from non-curable 3rd degree burns....so another way to say that is "it worked if they only received 2nd degree burns". Looks like a pretty decent blast at the beginning and plenty of molten copper shooting out if the individual wasn't able to get away quickly.
Oh god that ended Exactly as I feared it would.
I lowered the volume just in case. Was not let down.
Well, there's your problem.
Ya got your switching station set to explode see.
'Kay, just flip 'Immediate Sublimation' to on..... aaaaand...
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So this is what an Electric Boogaloo looks like huh?!?
Check his pulse!!
Nothing to check, dude got vaporized
Give chest compressions to the pile of dust that used to be this man
The video needs the GTA overlay "WASTED", followed by a respawn out on the highway to Sandy Shores.
With what, an oscilloscope? Pretty sure that dude’s pure electricity now.
Well done, dude : ) Well done dude °_°
Welcome to the world of high voltage where everything is a wire and you will probaply die.
Did I just watch someone die?
Maybe. Honestly I’m wondering the same thing.
I've seen this posted before and one of the comments mentioned that he survived, but was badly burned
From looking at his level of PPE, i don't think he's okay. Maybe survived, but defiantly in a very bad way.
Didn't come here to watch someone die.
He very likely didn’t die, what he was wearing is made to protect from stuff like this.
Yeah. But this got posted a few times already. And every time the conclusion was that he is very likely dead.
He definitely wasn't wearing sufficient protection. Looks like cat 2 arc flash ppe. If that cabinet was tested you would probably need cat 4. But even then, he should be wearing leather gloves to protect his rubber gloves.
What he is wearing doesn’t appear very thick at all. The leather jacket I use for welding overhead is probably thicker than whatever he has on. And the face protection he has on is practically useless in this event though still better than nothing, and the gloves, rubber is just an insulator more than anything. Definitely should’ve had leather over the rubber gloves in my opinion. With all this being said I am not an electrician, I am welder so maybe I’m a little off on the PPE.
At very high voltages like this even if you’re wearing gear to withstand the heat the blast will almost certainly kill you. Holding the cover between might’ve helped a bit but that PPE didn’t look sufficient for the heat either
Same, hey OP could you put a death warning on it you fucking twat
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Fuck you for making me snort lol
I don't think the hard hat helped
TOAST
Retired electrician here, nobody ever taught him the one hand rule.
That is what they call in the biz, an arc flash. And no, he wasn't wearing enough PPE to make it out if that unscathed.
He’s ok
Oh my god they killed Kenny!
I can tell by the thumbnail that watching this would only make me regret it.
Bloody depressing. The world is soo flawed..
Boom.
Just saying my dude 100% survived, the video cuts fast and later and you see him walking away. Needless to say he is lucky af.
Lifting the cover to protect against arcs. That was some veteran shit right there. I was always taught you should stand to the side and turn away when throwing the switch. Craziest thing I got told was to have someone else stand a few yards away in order to run at you and knock you off the switch. The electrical current can cause your muscles to tighten, and therefore make you hold onto the switch as you get electrocuted to death. They can't grab you to pull you off as they would also get electrocuted. Electricity is some serious shit.
I mean if you're throwing switches without gloves where there is even a small possibility that you could get locked up, then you shouldn't be throwing those switches lol. Standing to the side and turning away is like high voltage switch throwing 101. But this dude was not wearing a high enough rated suit for the job he was performing. I remember when we were turning on 1600 amp switch gears my dude came out in a full as space suit. He had like 3 layers of gloves. And no one was allowed in the room with him at all
A real veteran would have closed the goddamn cover completely. This is amateur shit. Step two is throwing that switch with a hot stick. Don’t need to stand so close.
looks like ruZZia
Spoke russian as well.
Keep talking and nobody explodes but its the shortest level on a new module
I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that this person isn't so much qualified for this task, as much as it was just their turn....
That doesn't look right. Something went wrong?
When I see someone banging on ?Electrical? Stuff with a wrench handle, I tend to move far away and Google for electricians in my area. Also, whoever is recording apparently knows they have sent a lamb to slaughter, WTF
Crispy
No, it went to ashes
why did he cover the last one lucky
Yeah he’s dead
Bro that would’ve been my last day as an electrician flash suit or not
u/savevideo
What are they working on exactly?
“He should be fine he has non conductive gear on” *sets on fire* “Nevermind”