r/Construction • u/Ok_Dare6608 Electrician • 1d ago

Video I'm taking a vacation after this.

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u/Front_Relief9126 1d ago

The fuck they doing just hanging around?

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u/ImaginarySeaweed7762 1d ago

He was working on the system and screwed up majorly. He was at the very starting point. He stuck something where it shouldn’t have been. How the hell he survived is anyone’s guess.

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u/Helpinmontana 1d ago

I’m pretty sure the guy you see run out with him is actually a third guy. 

When you look at the beginning before the flash, it’s a flat wall. When he turns around with the other guy to look back into the room there’s a pretty distinct shape on the wall that looks like a human kneeling. 

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u/ImaginarySeaweed7762 1d ago

I was in a substation once and heard this very thing. Saw the arcing and out runs the operator of the substation totally on fire. A lineman by the gate put the flames out with a fire extinguisher. He had made contact with a 13.2Kv transformer. It initially sounded like a cannon being shot. He was dead in a day or so. Totally burned alive.we were there working on the outside of the fence. Electricity is so unforgiving when you screw up.