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Tragic but the usual rubbish reporting.

Million watts of power ?????????

Perhaps a CAT would have saved him an awful lot of pain and suffering


Stu

I agree, the figures don't appear to stack up. It would not be unusual to limit earth fault current to 1000A on an HV system, as this should be sufficient to operate the protection without damaging the cable too much. Assuming the jack-hammer went phase to earth without developing to the other phases, this would give the maximum energy in the initial flash of just under 6.5MW. Obviously with the phase to earth voltage dropping due to the short, the ongoing energy in the arc will be considerably less.

Regards,

Alan.

Quote(from the article);

Northgate Vehicle Services pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations by failing to inform the main contractor of the underground cables.
A few more like this and proper corporate responsibility will be firmly established. Hope the guy gets better soon.
Regards

It also says he was "Electrocuted".
Clearly not as to be electrocuted you need to be dead

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Ebee (M I S P N)

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I think that there could have been a million watts available.
A kilowatt is a thousand watts, and a megawatt is a thousand kilowatts, so one megawatt is a million watts.

These days the term electrocuted seems to be used to mean "receive an electric shock" rather than older, perhaps the proper meaning of "being killed by an electric shock"

Errr? I've electrocuted many times - hahaha! Bloody hurts and I aint dead yet - when I woz a lad - I used the bottom of a TP&N industrial dis board to heave myself up and touched about every terminal at once - ahhhhhhhhhh!

Oh well - hey ho! I'm still here!

Whats the worst shock anyone on heres had, ( if you're still alive? ).

Tom

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Tom Lad,
Electrocution is a contraction of two words.

Electro & Execution.

You got to be dead to qualify as "Electrocuted"

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Ebee (M I S P N)

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Indeed.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=electrocution+define

Unlike getting a large shock, which does not have to end in death, and hence my or maynot be electrocution.

When you hit an HV cable you dont normaly get a shock. You get burnt by the flash. His poor guys injurys are burns to the skin. Severe shocks tend to burn internaly.

Tom

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Why did Nick Clegg cross the road? Because he said he wouldn't!

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Oh all right then

ELECTRI cal

&

Exe CUTED

If yer not dead you ain`t been electrocuted (the "I" becomes an "o" )
just been shocked and survived it.


Imagine if we said "Harry was killed so much that he were very nearly dead"

If he were killed he would be dead.

If he were alive he were not dead but was say perhaps assaulted

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Ebee (M I S P N)

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Eloquently put!

Tom ( not dead yet - feel like it - but not quite! ).

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Why did Nick Clegg cross the road? Because he said he wouldn't!

I can resist anything..... except temptation! ( Karl Gunn ).

Now we are running into quantum physics here, was he electrocuted dead or was he electrocuted alive, Oh No!!! not the cat again.

regards

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The energy in the pressure wave of an arc decreases with time but the heat energy is proportional to the duration of the arc.

Most of the severe burns form arc flash incidents are classified as secondary burning and are not directly from the arc itself. They caused by the arc igniting the clothing which continues to burn after the victim has moved away from the blast area. If the clothing is cotton it burns but polyester and other man-made fibres melt and stock to the skin.

Hence the recommendations for wearing flame resistant clothing that doesn't melt and extinguishes after being removed from the heat source.

Kind regards

Donald Lane

A guy I used to work with did the same thing some years ago, jack hammered through a HV cable in Worcester.

He was lay in casualty at the hospital and the sister came over to say his gaffer had just phoned to ask if he would be OK to go back and fill the hole in, or would he have to get someone else to do it?

Andy