Electrical Safety: Underground Contact

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Electrical Safety: Underground Contact | WorkSafeBC

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This workplace health and safety video shows what could happen when a backhoe operator contacts an underground power line.
This educational video can be used in health and safety training for operating excavators around energized electrical lines and conductors.
Working around underground utility lines is one of the most common hazards that excavator operators need to be aware of.
This video shows you what to do if you strike an underground power line with heavy machinery and the steps you should take to escape from an energized area.
Always contact BC 1 Call before you dig. Visit www.worksafebc... for more information on working safely around underground utilities in British Columbia.
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@worksafebc 11 ай бұрын

Contact BC 1 Call before you dig. Learn more about working safely around electricity at worksafebc.com/electricity.

@jonathan_careless 5 жыл бұрын

I've watched a bunch of these videos and I've concluded that BC is the most dangerous place in the world to work.

@NicholasLittlejohn 3 жыл бұрын

Or safest

@chrisandrews414 Жыл бұрын

im glad im not the only one who wandered in here

@Aranimda Жыл бұрын

China is safest, because you never see warnings for dangers nor accident investigations there.

@kevinf8439 3 жыл бұрын

this feels like the beginning of a 90min drama based on a true story.

@TheTechCguy 2 жыл бұрын

These short construction safety PSAs are always OP to watch! Short, direct, and to the point about safety. Like those old PSAs from the 80s and 90s!

@charlessmith263 8 жыл бұрын

That is why there is the so-called "Julie Law"--where you are required by law to call utilities before you dig or do any excavation project, especially in the State of Illinois. That law was implicated to prevent such disasters like the simulated disaster you saw in this video. 10 meters is about 33-35 feet.

@JamesSmith-jq2jc 3 жыл бұрын

Even they make mistakes, or miss something. I seen it myself when working with an excavator, he dug up a fiber optic cable and cut the line. He was upset, I said I'd be mad as hell, it could of been a electrical cable and killed him.

@crazypete3759 3 жыл бұрын

10 meters is EXACTLY 32.8084 feet

@rajeshrajendran3174 3 ай бұрын

Good information .. But why still operator inside the cabinet?

@andymiller3138 3 жыл бұрын

i have seen this on a job site under ground power boxes caught fire for at least 200 ft

@llVIU 3 жыл бұрын

0:20 absolutely nobody is smart enough to know that ''an area can be energized''... not even most electricians unfortunately

@marcusorcasitas7401 Жыл бұрын

That's not how electricity works if you break it underground a loud arc flash can happen until short is blown apart or Tripps or transformer blows it may still have power but it does not mean that rock and dirt becomes conductive hi volt can reach out and touch you but most likely it will go straight to earth before you because there would be less resistance

@goth6irl 8 жыл бұрын

Scary stuff

@chrissteele6821 Жыл бұрын

Permit to dig required then scan the area and a banksman to keep watch

@mercoid 3 жыл бұрын

ZAPPITTY DOOOOO!!!! ⚡️🔌💡⚡️

@KeithRa68 7 жыл бұрын

If you hit a line don't stop making the cut. I think they should tell people not to get off machine if you come in contact with a power line.

@williamweaver1862 5 жыл бұрын

ever heard of step and touch potential? If you make contact, and the machine bursts into flames... then what?? you jump clear as far as possible (if possible without contacting conductive components) from the machine with both points of contact together e.g with both you feet touching not 5 or 10mm.. TOUCHING! you then hop with both feet together out of the exclusion zone for the applicable voltage from point of contact. N.B Only to be performed if additional immediate threats to life exist. the last thing you want to do is continue the cut, 9/10 utilities are run together.... so after contacting the first phase it might be another phase without protection... it might also be a gas main.... excelent combiniation when youve got a live exposed cable right beside it now.

@Meowface. 2 жыл бұрын

Zzzap Look both ways...cover it back up with dirt Act natural, like nothing happened Blame some other guys for the problem if its discovered That's how the pros do it

@apg8387 Жыл бұрын

Actúan mejor esta gente que muchos de holyywood.

@NicholasLittlejohn 3 жыл бұрын

Play at 2x

@ExcavationNation Жыл бұрын

I hit them all the time.

@Stenchx 8 жыл бұрын

What's a meter?

@TheHAMR1111 7 жыл бұрын

Stenchx 1000 mm, 100 cm, 1.1 yrd, 3.3 ft, 1,000,000 microns, 1,000,000,000 nano meter,s 1.06E-16 light years, .59 smoots, 200,000,000 beard seconds, .2 rods, .002 Li, or 39.38 inches.

@gorillaau 6 жыл бұрын

Gotta remember to use smoots more often. Thanks for the reminder.

@marshalljimduncan 5 жыл бұрын

A meter is a tool used to check electrical current and voltage.

@neophobicnyctophile8264 4 жыл бұрын

A little more than 2 Cubits

@williammoses6232 4 жыл бұрын

a meter is 39 inches 10 meters is about 33 feet