It's hard for me to tell what he's doing, but looks like he's handling a energized cable with his hands?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c9_1297800405
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c9_1297800405
It's hard for me to tell what he's doing, but looks like he's handling a energized cable with his hands?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c9_1297800405
It looks like he is trying to untwist the triplex so he can cut the wires separately from the ground. He had gloves so I am not sure if he got zapped or got scared when the wires shorted.
It does look like the cable faulted near his elbow and went through his jacket. He was wearing gloves but was too close to the wire with his body. Gloves can only protect what they cover.If you watch very closely right before he gets hit, there is some corona discharge to his left elbow which seems to me either was inductive kick back from the shorting line down stream or the primary windings shorting to the secondary in the transformer, one of the discharges is about 6" long and a bluish purple in color, looks like this is what got this worker.
Keep replaying it you will see it if you have a big enough monitor, also select full screen.
If you look in the top left corner of the image just as the lineman gets the blue discharge, there are some insulators that look for a lot higher voltage that 220/110, just as the camera moves.
So perhaps the triplex contacted a higher voltage, and that's why there was a blue corona-ish discharge by his elbow.
A friend of mine sent that link to me earlier, with the email titled "Electrocution!" :roll:
I explained the difference to him right away.
Left elbow, definitely; greater than residential voltage, definitely; and, he collapsed (or tripped) at the very end of the video.
Voltage is the push and comes from a difference of potential between two points.Is it the voltage that "kills" or the amperage?
I'm not convinced that arcing on the ground is anything other than LV. There are other videos on youtube with that sort of arcing on the utility drop.
A friend of mine sent that link to me earlier, with the email titled "Electrocution!" :roll:
I explained the difference to him right away.
That limeman has my prayers and best wishes.
Pun only meant for Larry see there Larry not just Frankenstien. :roll:
Now my two cents worth I believe it was high voltage on that line 120/240 will not conduct that way not even wet.
Look at it this way it is used for service drops everywhere it has the grounded conductor twisted around it it stays rain soaked in a rain storm and even in cased in ice in a bad weather ice storm.Laying on the ground wouldn't make any differences.
Don't believe every thing you see on TV and movies 240 will not do that in a wet location.