Arc Flash Underground Cable Explosion

Laborers cutting through a 12KV underground cable.

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• Arc Flash
• Explosion
• Video
• Electrical

[macssvt]

@bart hey fool, if ignorant people would follow the correct construction safety procedures this would have never happened. Take an OSHA safety class and learn something douchebag!

[macssvt]

Energizzzzzzzzzzed!!!

[croakerchoker504]

those guys are dumb, lets go see what that was.. ohhhh shit!!! its not over!!!

[mbreyer23]

whats this cable doing here it wasn't marked...... well at least i have my high viz vest on.

[sk8er4ever0101]

I guess they didn't call JULIE :(

[iowacableguy]

@macssvt This happens all the time. I work in the directional drilling field and can say that over the past ten years (since utility owners started contracting out the locating of their lines) it has gotten horrible. I can't even put a number to the unmarked and mis-marked lines I've encountered. OSHA has nothing to do with it, when you pay some guy from a temp agency 9.00 an hour to mark crucial lines, this is what you get.

[codeman883]

Haha Burn19ballz i was gonna say the samething! Lol,. There all about perfection but hell look who fucked things up lol

[bartekjaskula]

@macssvt this is NOT FUNNY ...somebody can die idiot

[burn19ballz]

that's why you shouldn't hire illegal immigrants.

[TheAlex5552]

Disregard my last post; after viewing the video again I saw a man come out of the trench he probably was cutting a cable thinking it was died. Or jackhammering through a cable covered with pc pipe and concrete thinking it was a rock, I did see a compressor hose. Nevertheless, I think it was the fault of the supervisor and engineer.

[TheAlex5552]

There should have been some kind of pc pipe around the cables and sometimes the pips are covered with concrete It was probably a misunderstanding between the laborer and operator because I don’t think someone would cut a pipe just like that most likely the cable was cut by the backhoe and then they backed it up to be safe.

[rybaluc]

@CGrasser3613310730 I don't know how it is in your country, but when some digging is needed in my country there is mandatory to explore maps of underground networks+locate. In some cases we were able to get records of pipes even from 19th century. When i have to dig on my land, i have to make prove of existency or no existency of networks under my land.

Shit sometimes happens. Especially when many networks crosses. For example when plumbers fixed water leakage they cutted optical cables nearby