It looks & sounds like that work place has the nicest, friendliest, most caring work & life based approach to life & what is worth. I’ll admit I had a lump in my throat & a tear in my eye, I’m so sorry for the loss of your true friend Eddie Adams.❤
Today I read a story on Reddit about 'what was the scariest thing you ever saw' and a guy talked about someone failing to lockout. Which resulted a person being carbonized. Lots of follow up stories on the thread and I thought what the heck is an arc flash. I'm a lawyer and while I've held crap jobs in college to pay for law school I've never done something like this. So a few videos on RU-vid and Eddie was mentioned on Reddit and christ I'm sorry I'm curious about things. To be the helpful guy and pay that price. I feel so bad for his family and everyone that worked with him. That's the thing, we dont think when we become good at our jobs and do the same thing 1000 times. We don't think about how a workplace accident will really affect the coworkers. My brother and I survived 9/11 by a series of oddly timed events. We were late going in and left the building before we got to our offices. My brother killed himself about 10 years ago from survivor's guilt. I have depression and anxiety and guilt and weird things remind me of people I didn't know well but I saw everyday and knew enough to chat briefly. Little things but boy do they add up. I lost people I was very close with as well. I try to believe it was quick but my mind goes to dark places. Eddie being on fire and making it out of the building that took strength and determination. I can imagine he was aware he'd made a mistake and by getting out at least his family would know what happened to him and not wonder and worry. The not knowing is cruel punishment. I can't imagine being an electrician and watching this and still skipping safety precautions. This terrified me. Don't let Eddie's death be in vain. Think of the person you love most losing you and the hell they would go through knowing you lost your life because you couldn't take 5 minutes to suit up. It would drive me insane. Its that soul crushing grief and anger thhat stops your breathing. Those that have lost someone close to them knoe what I mean.
This poor man must have been in absolute agony and terrified beyond measure! I can't imagine what he must have been feeling and thinking! RIP sir I am so sorry this happened to you!
I’ve never worked an industrial job, so I can’t say what I would’ve done or what should’ve been done. It’s awful that this situation ended in tragedy. So sorry for his family and coworkers.
I’m an electrician and I’ve done residential, commercial, and industrial work. In my experience I’ve noticed that industrial plants have the worst and most dangerous electrical work. Each time I do work there I try to work on the systems de-energized but when that isn’t possible (almost always the case) I test everything. I’ve seen a 208v 3 phase machine wired from 2 different panels. It had 2 hot legs from one and the third from a different panel.
It's a video that presents the horror of not following safety rules in this line of work. In the same era, it would be like showing horrific drunk driving crashes in a DUI prevention seminar.
He died for a company that would have no problem firing you. Remember that when you go to work. You will always be just a number to the people at the top.
That is hard to hear becuase not only did he get burnt. He didnt die instantly. No matter the amount of time even if someone was there the likelihood he lived would have been small. To be burning that hot for that long, your skin and tissue is melting, burning your insides and internal passages. You are cooking on the inside. But while this is tragic, it was stupid. You work in a dangerous area, you take great care and respect for those equipments and do everything you can to stay safe, extra people, double checks, more checks, plans, even for a simple task you always over prepare. But to just do this, its what happens. Accidents dont happen because you try to, accidents happen when you make dumb mistakes. And those mistakes in these areas cost you or others their lives.
It's not only about dying. Is about how you die. You better hope the electricity stops your heart. Else... your body becomes the path of electricity, and your body has high resistance, heating up from the inside, like a stove plate or oven element. Death by electricity is probably one of the worst deaths you can have. Cancer is bad, I have seen it, seen the horror of it. Flesh falling away... but the worst still has to be from radiation... like the poor guy in Japan the doctors kept alive after receiving a load of radiation.
Get the chills every time i watch this video. I like to watch it every now and then to remind myself to slow down and triple check what i’m doing. Thanks again for the video!
You can tell who in this video was his friends and who were the boot lickers/ safety heads. Yeah he messed up but it's the way thru say it that pisses me off. These are the same guys that will give workers shit about needing to get it done faster and saying how production is getting behind while it's fixed. Remember you are a number at a factory. Get your shit done right and remember if you get fired for being "too safe" you can get another factor job in a near by factory. P.S. I hope the guy explaining it in detail is able to afford therapy. You can tell it still eats at him which is totally understandable.
Probably because we take bigger risk and the more dangerous jobs. I work in a factory and man the amount of safety violations the company lets pass is really insane to me. The pay and hours doesnt even justify the risk so im leaving when i feel safe enough with my savings. Me and my coworker got hired within a day with 0 training and had to learn safety from other workers or dangerous mistakes that have injured us. The company didnt teach us anything
Really didn’t like that smirk the suit made when speaking on Eddie not reading warning labels on the panel, 😕 idk shit looked evil. Rip Eddie and to all the people that have or god forbid will pass.
I feel like the man telling if the what was ...if still living needs to be further looked into firstly... no one goes to work in any place like that with out proper shoes. . He smerkes fuck that shit . The macho walk off like he the raging cock now hahaha
Sad, but a sobering message like this can be the best lesson to enforce a real respect for the power of electricity and the need for safety procedures to be followed. My condolences to his family.
This is absolutely heartbreaking. I would rather have heard that he was knocked out by hitting the panel behind him and then burned to death. Instead this poor man ran around on fire, surely in agony, leaving bits of clothing and skin and bodily fluids for his friends to find. It's true you don't rush into anything with electricity. You don't override safety mechanisms. You wear proper PPE. And you have a buddy. It hurts my heart to think of what this man went through that last day of his life.
the main issue is, that americans dont train electrician ... in germany there is a 3.5 or 4 year training before youre a professional... in america you just learn by doing...
