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"Warning not for those fainted hearted if you watch the video clip"!

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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2014, 09:35:35 am »
Hard hats and hi-vis wouldn't have helped in this situation.

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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2014, 09:52:55 am »
Oh Jesus, I know I wasn't expecting something good from the "not for the faint hearted" but I couldn't watch that to the end.
Did I read the article right? Did three of them actually survive that?

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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2014, 11:14:10 am »
Ouch  :jumping: That's horrific  :sick:

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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2014, 11:24:00 am »
This happened a few years back in my hometown to a young footballer moving goalposts with his mate, absolutely horrific.

Unfortunately these guys hands were already in a clenched position so just latched on more when the shock came.
The wires should have had isolations at least.
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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2014, 11:26:16 am »
Fu*k.

Couldn't watch it past 1 minute, too much for me. Those poor poor people.  :sad1:

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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2014, 11:51:03 am »
One of them does get up and leg it about 4:30 in so its not all bad
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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2014, 12:26:42 pm »
Didn't watch any more after they started to smoke :sick:

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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2014, 12:29:02 pm »
Didn't watch any more after they started to smoke :sick:

One guy completely caught fire! Completely shocking.

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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2014, 05:24:43 pm »
Didn't watch any more after they started to smoke :sick:

One guy completely caught fire! Completely shocking.

It's very sad, I wish I hadn't watched it.

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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2014, 07:17:14 pm »
China has a really poor health and safety record, none existed more like. Something like two people each day died during the construction of the Olympic stadium.  :stupid:
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Re: Warning-Four painters hit by 10,000 volt electricity when moving Scaffold
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2014, 10:26:29 pm »
A proper understanding of the hazards might have prevented this, a lot is said of Health & Safety in the workplace and some of it can seem trivial but it exists for this reason.
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