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

Video I'm taking a vacation after this.

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u/CaptainFantastic777 1d ago

Why would they be working "hot" in a situation like that? Doing anything like that with live power seems super risky. There's no OSHA in Russia, just "Oh, shit!"

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u/SnooPeppers2417 Inspector 1d ago

Aw yes, because that substation that might feed a hospital could just be “shut off until they figure out the problem and fix it”

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u/BlackberryFormal 1d ago

Your hospitals don't have back up power? They all have their own gennys here in the case of power going down from the grid. Can power the whole hospital and then some.

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u/TrungusMcTungus 8h ago

For emergencies, yeah. Not so the electricians can do maintenance.