Saturday, December 19, 2015

Men at work . . .


Here's what happens when you hit an 11,000 volt electrical cable with a jackhammer.





Ouch!




Peter

8 comments:

Bob said...

Slight correction:

That's what happens when you hire unskilled labor that can't understand instructions - and cautions - given in English.

Merlin said...

Shocking. Just shocking (grin).

Glenn B said...

One has to wonder how on earth he walked away from that.

B said...

Flashburns are likely, plus temporary blindness.

Lucky he wasn't very badly injured.

Call for a locate......ALWAYS. Every time.

Larry said...

Copper thieves who were after the cables between the Clark AB HF Receiver/Control Site and our (very large) antenna field opened up the wrong trough one night and cut through a power cable. It was a miracle nobody was killed, and it blacked out a sizeable chunk of the base for a while. We (and the hospital) ran on generator power until CE got everything fixed. Their ignorance was excusable, but in this case, someone has been almost criminally negligent.

Larry said...

Clark AB, Republic of Philippines, that is (before Mt. Pinatubo blew its top).

Jacquejet said...

I was amped just watching it.

Quentin said...

The story is very current over here.