Thoughts?

[KennyKen]

View: https://youtu.be/1p9QRfNLxvQ

 

[Pete999]

View: https://youtu.be/1p9QRfNLxvQ

Where is it from?
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View: https://youtu.be/1p9QRfNLxvQ

Scary isn't it?

 

[dmxtothemax]

It looks like a PITA to work on
BUT
we don't know the full story, and why it was done this way,
could have been a perfectily legitimate reason originally.
And considering it's age, it don't look too bad.

 

[Moley]

Seen a lot worse at some of the older subs I've worked at.

 

[KennyKen]

Working “Hot” aka Live. No rubber mat. Just cardboard. Hardly any PPE. Over the rubber gloves should be another set of gloves. No Bomb suit. No rubber tooling. Just an accident waiting to happen. I dread to think of work you’ve seen that’s worse.

 

[Moley]

I was referring to the live exposed bars etc. Agree, no ppe, non insulated tools etc is a definite no.

 

[westward10]

I do plenty of live working but sometimes you have to weigh up the risk and say no, the clown in that video is an accident waiting to happen. Aside from the PPE, using that metal extension socket beggars belief.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Only once in 10 years have i actually worked live without planning it, i probably looked like the guy in the video. I used tools scavenged from a vehicles tool kit, mats grabbed from an office, gloves used from a warehouse and taped up tools.

However this looks like an install, i.e. planned. So cannot understand why he does not have more suitable gear. I know 120v - earth is easier to escape from BUT, i dont think thats his biggest risk. A direct short causing flash and flying molten metal would be my main concern.

He does not appear to have a tool kit for this type of work or PPE and he has had a belt a million times , lol

 

[KennyKen]

Scary isn’t it. ? waiting for a response from our American friend @Megawatt

 

[OnlQQker]

Posted in the jobs section of local newspaper

 

[snowhead]

Way too many thing to list but the most interesting (to me) was he's actually previously suffered the effects of a flashover in his face, yet is working in a manner likely to have the same outcome.
He's also allowing himself to be distracted by the (untrained?) person with the camera and allowing them to be in a position at risk if it goes wrong.

 

[Megawatt]

Scary isn’t it. ? waiting for a response from our American friend @Megawatt

Kenny yes it’s scary and it looked an apartment complex he was working on and couldn’t turn off the power. New York does things there own way. As far as me yes I’ve done a lot of work on live equipment but I have all my PPE with a rubber mat, 11 cal flash suit, face shield, rubber gloves plus leather gloves to go over the rubber gloves. Since he was what appeared to be adding a panel I guess since I couldn’t hear no sound on the video. I agree that he was an idiot doing that work without the proper PPE and yes had something went wrong it would have as stated above blew up and shot molten copper at 700 miles an hour right in his face. I have went to a lot of manufacturing plants and give power point demonstrations for there maintenance people on the proper way of working on electrical and how important that putting on there PPE is. Again in New York I admit he got lucky this time but if he continues to work like that it will bite him in the ---. I don’t approve of what he did but one man is not a reflection on how we do work in America.

 

[KennyKen]

Kenny yes it’s scary and it looked an apartment complex he was working on and couldn’t turn off the power. New York does things there own way. As far as me yes I’ve done a lot of work on live equipment but I have all my PPE with a rubber mat, 11 cal flash suit, face shield, rubber gloves plus leather gloves to go over the rubber gloves. Since he was what appeared to be adding a panel I guess since I couldn’t hear no sound on the video. I agree that he was an idiot doing that work without the proper PPE and yes had something went wrong it would have as stated above blew up and shot molten copper at 700 miles an hour right in his face. I have went to a lot of manufacturing plants and give power point demonstrations for there maintenance people on the proper way of working on electrical and how important that putting on there PPE is. Again in New York I admit he got lucky this time but if he continues to work like that it will bite him in the ---. I don’t approve of what he did but one man is not a reflection on how we do work in America.

No of course not @Megawatt. I’ve seen
Some fantastic American installs. Especially steel conduit installs that could pass as Art. Hope your well ??

 

[Megawatt]

No of course not @Megawatt. I’ve seen
Some fantastic American installs. Especially steel conduit installs that could pass as Art. Hope your well ??

It’s all good @Kenny and as far as the person videoing this install I put up red danger tape in a 10 foot perimeter which no one is allowed in. Have a great day my friend

 

[DT1991]

At around 1:53

That cardboard must be rated at 200A according the to label