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Explosionface posted:A couple years ago, we had a deal where one phase of power came lose at the pole and fell onto the neutral. Took me too long to figure out the power wasn't "out" before I turned off the breaker box. Every major 120V appliance had to be replaced and I think I'm still chasing down the occasional light fixture that was damaged. I remember this happend where I live years ago when I was little kid. I remember lights getting superbright and then magic smoke everywhere. It wasn't that bad, TV and fuse in VCR fuse were blown and then circuit breakers tripped. Everything else survived.
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Explosionface posted:A couple years ago, we had a deal where one phase of power came lose at the pole and fell onto the neutral. Took me too long to figure out the power wasn't "out" before I turned off the breaker box. Every major 120V appliance had to be replaced and I think I'm still chasing down the occasional light fixture that was damaged. Our office building went from 3-phase to 1-phase last week. Not by design, something went wrong at CenterPoint Energy. We had to shut down all of the big motors (HVAC, water pumps, appliances, etc.) until it was sorted out.
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I'm retarded, can someone explain this phase business to me. Do fused plugs stop all my poo poo breaking if a tree drops outside?
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May 25, 2016 13:19
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It's kind of like what happened to Gordon in the test chamber at the start of Half-Life.
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Mozi posted:It's kind of like what happened to Gordon in the test chamber at the start of Half-Life. Nothing?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Nothing? ten thousand apologies, i should have said 'around' instead of 'to.' off to seppuku myself
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Mozi posted:ten thousand apologies, i should have said 'around' instead of 'to.' off to seppuku myself Well to be honest he did fall off the ladder a lot when I was playing.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Well to be honest he did fall off the ladder a lot when I was playing. Black Mesa was one big OSHA nightmare.
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Platystemon posted:gif of brickor log hitting guys head against fence well im done with this thread.
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Nonviolent J posted:well im done with this thread. idk when people stopped treating this as anything other than "often-violent accident porn thread" but it sucks
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Oopsie quote:Yep, Michigan RB Was Run Over By A Forklift
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Wait, hoe was there a mystery / speculation? Did the guy himself not know he was run over by a forklift?
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steinrokkan posted:Wait, hoe was there a mystery / speculation? Did the guy himself not know he was run over by a forklift? Well, he's a running back, so he's probably got CTE. If nobody gave him a Polaroid with "You got run over by one of these" written on it he probably has no recollection of the event.
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steinrokkan posted:Wait, hoe was there a mystery / speculation? Did the guy himself not know he was run over by a forklift?
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Olewithmilk posted:I'm retarded, can someone explain this phase business to me. Do fused plugs stop all my poo poo breaking if a tree drops outside? I don't think a fuse or a breaker is a bulletproof vest - they only stop high current flow. If you suddenly get 4160V on a 120/240V circuit interesting things could happen to the loads before the fuse blows or the breaker trips. In fact if there's too much fault current the circuit breaker or fuse (more rarely) can actually fail to interrupt and blow up. A TVSS (transient voltage surge supressor) might help but I am not sure for that kind of accident (medium voltage onto a low voltage line). The other poster mentioned single-phasing. If you have a three phase motor and open one of the three power lines to it, it can still spin, but it draws a TON more current. Sometimes that can cause the other fuses to blow or the breaker to trip, but it's not good for the motor. On some of our medium voltage motor starters and drives we have power fuses about the size of your forearm with a metal spike that pops out the end if the fuse blows. They're set up so that pin slams into a fiberglass bar that hits a switch that tells the drive "Hey, a fuse blew, the motor has to stop RIGHT NOW. Stop firing the SCRS (or IGBTs) and signal the upstream breaker to trip!"
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And they STILL stacked poo poo that can catch on fire next to it.
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If there's one thing a block adaptor like that is for, it's burning your house down in the night because you plugged three tumble dryers into one and it reached 150 Celsius and burst into flames.
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Nonviolent J posted:well im done with this thread. Ambrose Burnside posted:idk when people stopped treating this as anything other than "often-violent accident porn thread" but it sucks I guess it was 35 pages ago if Nonviolent J's reaction is any indication. Here's a close call! http://i.imgur.com/Q2wJCTE.webm
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:close call! More like a direct hit. I don't think that dude was doing so well there at the end.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:More like a direct hit. I don't think that dude was doing so well there at the end. He's just struggling to get his seatbelt off and is understandably a bit dazed. If that thing had caught him even a glancing blow he wouldn't be moving at all (well most of him wouldn't, other bits would be moving away pretty quickly). Look at the way it totally wrecks the steering wheel and the grabrail behind him, neither of these are lightweight items and are probably a bit more durable than the average skull or ribcage.
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Someone dropped a loving used insulin needle that was pushed full of brown residue on a production floor next to a cleanroom on Monday. This week has been fun.
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I haven't made any safety reports this week and I'm jonesing bad. Someone do the hurtful.
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alright im going back and reading the thread cos i enjoy it. just seeing the dude lock up like that was hosed up
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OSHA thread, I had a dream about you. I was staying at some nice resort (I wish) and there was construction going on with scaffolding but everyone was allowed on it like a walkway. So I was walking and there was stuff dropping from above and I scolded them for not having enough security to stop people from walking under. And then there was some big wig construction guy and the part of scaffolding he was on fell like 3 stories and he died. And I was like SEE I TOLD YOU and I even thought in my dream, man I'm gonna have to tell the OSHA thread about this one. Turns out it was also his wedding day which turned into a funeral! yay dreams.
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MrQwerty posted:Someone dropped a loving used insulin needle that was pushed full of brown residue on a production floor next to a cleanroom on Monday. someone's shooting heroin at work with sneaky needles.
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SaNChEzZ posted:someone's shooting heroin at work with sneaky needles. This. Bootin' that blacktar.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:He's just struggling to get his seatbelt off and is understandably a bit dazed. If that thing had caught him even a glancing blow he wouldn't be moving at all (well most of him wouldn't, other bits would be moving away pretty quickly). Look at the way it totally wrecks the steering wheel and the grabrail behind him, neither of these are lightweight items and are probably a bit more durable than the average skull or ribcage. Look at how fast he got flung backwards as the pole hit. He definitely got smashed.
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chitoryu12 posted:Look at how fast he got flung backwards as the pole hit. He definitely got smashed. He's belted into a seat that gets knocked off its mounting.
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SaNChEzZ posted:someone's shooting heroin at work with sneaky needles. Yeah I'd agree. Time to fire somebody
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chitoryu12 posted:Look at how fast he got flung backwards as the pole hit. He definitely got smashed. You do realise there is actual reporting about this incident? He wasn't hit in the head, his injury was a ruptured spleen from the seatbelt constricting around his waist.
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Some of the Sheep posted:You do realise there is actual reporting about this incident? He wasn't hit in the head, his injury was a ruptured spleen from the seatbelt constricting around his waist. I didn't know the report was posted online because there was no source given for the incident in the thread.
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chitoryu12 posted:I didn't know the report was posted online because there was no source given for the incident in the thread. Also, given that it happened in China, it likely hasn't been translated.
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Say Nothing posted:
He looks british, in which case that's totally not fake. They're dumb as bricks over there.
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Say Nothing posted:
yeah you can see him jump prior to actually dropping the block of concrete.
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