Electrician Reacts to CRAZY Construction Fails🤯

[@MickC2167]

I once drilled into the wall with a 6mm masonry bit, above a window in a bedroom on the top level of the three storey, brand new apartment. The people were moving into their new apartment on Easter Thursday as I was putting up the curtains. I hit a high-pressure pipe that was part of the fire control system. The water pressure was so high that the stream was eating away the render on the other side of the room. No one could figure how to turn off the water as it was independent of their normal water. Within 5-10 minutes every room on the top level was an inch deep in water and it started flowing down the stairs like a waterfall. After a few more minutes there was water coming through the ceiling on the bottom level. It took about 45 minutes before someone could locate the water cut-off, which was in a room hidden away in the underground car park. Brand new carpets upstairs were soaked, the wooden floors and kitchen cabinets downstairs were swollen with water, and some of the furniture was ruined. It was an old factory area that had been converted to series of three storey apartments. There was a high-pressure fire control system that was in place when it was factories. They kept the system but had just rendered over parts with internal pipes for aesthetic purposes and no one had been told some rooms had these pipes only a few mm under the render. It was a complete disaster.

[@thinklist]

I know exactly how you feel 👍

[@MeppyMan]

@@MickC2167 feel bad for you for sure. But those poor people. Not fun for anyone involved.

[@MickC2167]

@@MeppyMan 100%. I felt horrible about the poor people moving into to their new home.

[@Daniel15au]

Who's liable in that case / who pays for the damages?

[@MickC2167]

@@Daniel15au I don't know who eventually paid. All I was aware of was the relief when it was deemed that I wasn't responsible. They pretty much said I was only installing where I was instructed to by the homeowner, and no one would have been expected to be able to predict a high-pressure water pipe was buried internally just under the render above a couple of French doors leading out to the balcony. The homeowner had no idea the pipes were there.

[@Tekwyzard]

The arc flash incident in Russia is a few years old, and to be honest it's impressive how calmly the dude handles the situation. In the full video it's obvious that he's poking about in other cabinets to see which one he can do something inside of to shut the arcing one down, which he eventually succeeds in doing. Running away is the last thing on his mind while he's working through the problem.

[@thinklist]

It’s true how calm he was, but for me I wouldn’t risk it. You never know what is going to happen and my life is worth more than there sub station 🚉

[@derKarl_stp]

@@thinklist not in russia... 🥴

[@UpLateGeek]

My uncle was a safety officer at [petro-chemical company], I remember he got a call while we were having lunch with him one day, and it was the first time I've ever seen someone turn ashen faced. Apparently someone called him up because they were about to clean out a tank and they noticed there was a small amount of liquid left inside, and they weren't sure what to do. This is what I heard him say: "Are you inside the tank right now? [pause] OK, the first thing you're going to do is hang up this call, then leave the tank and let it vent. [pause] Bye." Let's just say dude was literally inside a tank that previously held fuel, a highly flammable, vaporous and carcinogenic liquid, and not knowing what he's doing, he decided the best thing was to take out his phone and call someone. While he's still inside the tank. Inhaling said highly flammable, vaporous and carcinogenic fumes. Fool's lucky he didn't win a Darwin award that day. My Dad offered my uncle a scotch, which he immediately accepted!

[@thinklist]

I wonder how many of these stories there are. That guys is so lucky

[@hillppari]

The petro chemical company i work at has really good safety stuff but in reality its really sketchy sometimes when you gotta fix some valve or pipe ASAP and you cant go waiting on scaffolding to be built. Gotta climb on pipes etc to reach it. but ATEX safety is taking really serious

[@HrLBolle]

this has me thinking of "The Chemical Worker's Song" and I highly recommend the version sung by Colm R. McGuinness and If you want a more sedated variant there is the below The Chemical Worker's Song (Cover) by Seth Staton Watkins

[@MeppyMan]

Many many years ago I went to an “illegal” rave here in Melbourne that was at some old factory with big silos. Someone had found a manhole and went exploring but left it open. I stepped into it as it was dark and I wasnt sober, and only just caught myself. It was a long way down. It wasn’t a fun experience.

[@thinklist]

Yep they can be bloody deep, makes for a cool story though 👍

[@MeppyMan]

@@thinklist yeah. Ended my buzz lol. We covered the hole back up and a few mins later the cover moved and a guy popped out all upset… until I told him what had happened.

[@tychosis]

I work on submarines and confined spaces are scary and have to be gas-freed before work can take place in them. You could seriously end up with a giant pile of bodies in there when people go into try to grab their buddy. Your body really only reacts to an abundance of CO2 and that's pretty much the only way you know you're suffocating, if you go into a space without oxygen you're just gonna feel woozy and pass out.

[@thinklist]

It’s pretty crazy stuff, great story mate 👍

[@tychosis]

@@thinklist Yeah, there was a Chinese submarine (361) that had a terrible accident when the diesel wasn't shut down properly and consumed all the oxygen in the boat. Drifted for 10 days with all 70 crewmembers dead, just found at their stations--they didn't even know anything was wrong. It's scary stuff.

[@thinklist]

@@tychosis ​​⁠holy crap I just looked up the story online that is crazy

[@normandiebryant6989]

I've even heard of sailors climbing down into the anchor-chain hold on large ships, then fainting and falling off the ladder. Apparently, if a LOT of steel or iron rusts, it takes the oxygen out of the air.

[@KRich408]

An old boss I worked for told me to string up a 1/4" cable between 2 huge pine trees in Oregon about 30' up, the cable wasn't long enough so he told me to connect 2 together with a couple of saddle clamps, , against my better judgement and telling him it's not a good idea he put his ladder up in the wire between the trees to start hanging Xmas lights! When he reached the top the clamps failed! Let's just say when he came down his ankles were more like bags of sand and I had to watch this unfold 😮 I ran back to the office to tell his wife to call ,911 it took them almost 45 minutes to get there because the property was in the middle of a national Forrest.

[@thinklist]

Holy shit that’s crazy.

[@travispratt7658]

Was building a store front, new guy took out a fire suppression with the scissor lift. Flooded us and the neighboring stores. Fun times

[@retrozmachine1189]

Sometimes you see hilarious stuff with drop ceilings. A co-worker forgot where she was and sat on a tile, which naturally gave way. Luckily for her there was such a tangle of cable in the ceiling that it cradled her so when I walked into the office space below all I saw was her bum/back/legs sticking out of the ceiling. It took a couple of lads + planks to lift her back out.

[@waldevv]

IIRC there was a case in my country a while ago where someone died because they were in an enclosed space welding something and they suffocated because all the welding gases etc. displaced the oxygen. Always really important to have proper ventilation in situations like that

[@tyrannicpuppy]

Loved doing my sparky apprenticeship here in Victoria. The training videos we saw were spectacularly to the point. The stuff they showed was brutal and just said do this you will die/be permanently injured. Like the classic TAC ads of the 90s.

[@fgaucoffee744]

Love the clips of a Garn video in there!

[@thinklist]

Legends

[@matthewgruba8040]

I once had to fix an isolator to the external of a mudbrick house. I asked, and was with absolute certainty informed by the customer, who had built the house, there were no services behind that location. Knowing that there were no screws that would hold the isolator in place, I used 4 screws just to hold the isolator in position until the silicone cured and held it on the wall (there were no timbers for 2m in any direction). Of the 4 screws, only one really grabbed the wall. It all looked good at the time, but the next day that one screw which had grabbed, had penetrated a water line, and washed outa good part of the wall. I hate working on mudbrick.

[@bene5431]

4:29 That dude in the manhole at least has the shopvac blowing air down there

[@IIGrayfoxII]

Q:How does this happen? A: Most of these are in countries with little to no safety or the company is taking short cuts as the cost of paying out and lawsuits is less than the money lost due to doing the safety stuff

[@thinklist]

Fair point

[@tfrowlett8752]

The sketchiest thing I used to do at my old work was stand on a forklift pallet and be lifted five meters up to get down TV panels off the shelves, with no safety gear. If the forklift moved when I wasn’t ready or if I lost my footing I’d be gone. So glad I don’t work there anymore and my old boss is now out of business.

[@thinklist]

Mate that is crazy 🤪

[@tfrowlett8752]

@@thinklist my old boss did not care what happened to me. He had a huge gambling addiction as well as being a recovering alcoholic. He was not fit to run a business. Now I have a much better boss who actually takes care of me and now I enjoy going to work.

[@thinklist]

@@tfrowlett8752 what a dick. Glad your being looked after now mate 👍

[@monad_tcp]

wonder why he's out of business, imagine a wall of racks full of TVs smashing on the ground, must have been beautiful to see

[@tfrowlett8752]

@@monad_tcp the guy was a complete tool. When I heard he went out of business I drove home blasting Celebration by Kool And The Gang.

[@derKarl_stp]

that one "OSHA-moment" was a bit like "hey, yeah, you are here now, so what did we do wrong?" (and just seconds later the trench starts to collapse) pretty lucky that nothing else happened... and I guess that had a longer aftermath as well for the safety guy as well as the company and the boss

[@TradieTrev]

Aussie standards should be free for every tradie that passed his course = NO THEY MAKE US PAY FOR STANDARDS!!!

[@RainyeC23]

I was a trailer mechanic for an OTR trucking company here in the US. Most of the tire failures you see in videos are generally truck tires. The reason for this is because truck tires unlike your ordinary run of the mills are usually very high psi. The rating we had was 110 but it really depends on atmospheric conditions too(same as regular tires). There is a cage designed to stop exactly what you saw in that video from occurring, it actually saved my arse at one point. I was inflating one and our routine was always the same, connect the air give it a few minutes and check the pressure. There was a regulator attached to ours that shut off the air at 110 like clockwork, it had never failed before. Well, this day I decided to allow the regulator to do its thing...that was a huge mistake, never ever under any circumstances ever turn your back on an inflating tire. It exploded with a force from 15 feet away that knocked me clear to the ground. Thankfully the tire cage did its thing and stopped debris from flying around the shop I was working in. That one bloke is very lucky he didn't truthfully cop it sweet in the face with that rim, those are incredibly heavy also and severe concussion or worse could have resulted

[@marcussmithwick6326]

This video actually makes learning about safety fun.

[@thinklist]

Yes, it did it 👍

[@marcussmithwick6326]

​@@thinklist Really appreciate it! I'm nearly a third year electrical apprentice and see too many tradies taking too many unnessesary risks on the jobsite. I aim to be a tradesman that leads by example in regards to things like this, cheers.

[@thomasdemaio53]

6:24. Enclosed spaces will sometimes have metals oxidizing and slowly absorb all of it if not ventilated.

[@Z-Ack]

Yea i remember installing some wifi boosters in an auditorium/ opera house and was on a cat walk, no harness or anything. No warnings but below the cat walk were ceiling tiles. My coworker dropped a screwdriver and it busted out a ceiling tile and when i looked down the hole with the catwalk only being 1 foot wide and nothing to grab onto i see through the ceiling tile at least a 100 foot 4 story drop to the cement floors…. I damn near had a turd baby and legs got all wobbly. So i got the hell back off of it asap and had to sit down for a few.. get a sense of security with a floor below you but when you realize the floor is only 3/8” thick foam then a 4 story drop you get pretty dumbfounded if you havent put two and two together yet.. my coworker damn near fell after he dropped the screwdriver trying to catch it and moving the cat walk on us.. but he caught himself on a support chain.. lol.

[@N4CR]

Yeah been in those spaces in many places with event/electrical/etc jobs and yeah that's terrifying when you realise this flimsy veneer is hiding a 30m drop below you lol.

[@johnrickard8512]

As for the "confined space" I am assuming that is why there is a generator and a shop vac, the latter almost certainly having its hose attached to the outlet, providing him a serviceable if not clean air supply.

[@LunaphaseLasersOfficial]

Damn that last guy took one hell of a whip.

[@toasega]

I work retail. We have a massive shipment of Christmas trees every year. Our biggest one is a 12 foot tree that comes in two separate boxes. Normally, it's on the floor, but this year, it's stacked super high up with the rest of the trees, I want to say probably 20+ feet off the ground. Even the lighter of the two is over 50 pounds, and we only have a 12 foot ladder to reach it with. Then we have to physically carry the thing down. I'm not looking forward to selling those things, because I don't want to die, and my boss won't let me even wear so much as a hard hat. I'm wanting to make some sort of under-armor with spine and rib protection, so he can't see it, but I don't know how. Thought maybe I could rig up some sort of Fall Protection after seeing this video, but nothing springs to mind, because the shelves don't have any unobstructed parts, plus there's still the matter of climbing up and down the ladder. I'm not trying to whine, or be a whistleblower or anything, I just have nowhere else to go, and I obviously can't afford to lose my job, because basic human decency and safety costs money, apparently. So my only other option is to try and find some kind of non-intrusive method to protect myself.

[@jordanferrazza8700]

Can you explain the whole entire process of replacing a power pole from reconnaissance to construction and what they actually look for? AusNet says a few things like they fly low in an area or wildfire-proofed Gippsland

[@ElementalITcc]

i missed your videos. glad to see you back on the youtubes

[@thinklist]

Thanks mate 🙏

[@HrLBolle]

If been inside a Truck shop (Probearbeit) that had its own tire/wheel station and they too did the poof trick but the rim was locked in the machine and the poof went away from the machine

[@HrLBolle]

14:41 Maybe dumb question: Is that inside the potential High Radiation Dose Zone of nuclear Power Plan, right atop the Core or an empty spent fuel pool?

[@matthewrogers94mr]

The bit with the tire, he used to put of the spray

[@ryans413]

Dam that wind turbine exploded lol

[@111smd]

my understanding about a confined space is any space that contains 3 of the below 1.any space that has only one entrance or exit 2.any space that the entrance or exit is smaller than a person standing fully erect 3.any space that you cant go through the entrance or exit while keeping your feet on the floor all the way in or out (shuffling out) 4.any space that the only entrance or exit is up or down 5.any space that can contain fully any gas that is heaver or lighter then oxygen to the height of a fully erect person 6.any space where only one person can fit at a time 7.any space where if you have injuries and no one can enter to help you out of the space yes there are many places that tic 3 or more just by the fact they exist a manhole has 6 just off the bat 1,2,3,4,5,7 even if is only 2 feet deep i have even seen walk in coolers that would classify as confined spaces with 1,3,6

[@marzinjedi6437]

I have seen a guy climb down into a elevator shaft to check on a man who had passed out and then he passed out we had to hold our breath and tie ropes to them the pit was full of argon or something we pumped it out to the street with shop vacuums ! The shaft was the lowest level of the building and had been sealed off for several months !

[@bunnykiller]

there was a freight elevator at work that had the lift to open front gate, the handle was about 2/3rd the way down the gate from the top. At the top of the gate was a support beam that had about 1/4" clearance between the handle and beam, as you lifted the gat the handle would pass behind the beam creating a pinch point if you were holding the handle to control the lifting speed of the gate... needless to say a couple of people got their fingers pinched and safety reports filed. Nothing was done, the handle wasnt replaced with a strap or moved to the lowest point on the gate before a pinch point could occur... a few days later a guy lost 2 fingers due to this badly designed handle/beam... it finally got "fixed", they moved the beam upwards 5" from 6'3" to 6'8". Wear your glasses when reading install instructions....

[@CajunReaper95]

Ok so the wall collapsing one you can clearly see there’s rushing waters after it falls so I’m guessing the rising pressure was causing the wall to buckle pushing out any support it had causing it to them collapse!

[@soylentgreenb]

Sketchiest thing I’ve seen is someone being lowered into trench with an excavator bucket. Steep trench in soft clay, maybe 60 degree sloped sides, about 4 meter deep, no other shoring.

[@seldoon_nemar]

That wall collapse was a failure of temporary retention during excavation of a foundation. Those plates that are popping off are anchor bolts getting ripped free. It was really under braced and it probobly rained. All of that would normally be dug back out anyway once the foundation is cast Low O2 enviroments are surprisingly common. a sealed space with a large volume of exposed iron will have it's O2 depleted as it is absorbed to form rust. CO2 is heavier than air, you can fill a trench with it. way too many stories of ladders that end up with a pile of dead coworkers at the bottom The wind turbine is a brake failure. usually in high winds they will park the blades because this can happen where the system has a fault and the rotor turns into a pinwheel 11:30 I have never seen an explosion like that from this trick before. they must have won the darwin lotto and hit perfect stoichiometry. This trick is used to seat the bead temporarily so it'll hold air. the "propper tool" is called an air cheetah, which is just a tank with a 2" ball valve that you smack so it does the same thing as the explosion.There are much antics to be had with cheetahs, Like shooting your boys asscrack and blowing his pants right off when he's distracted If you're working at actual height like iron work, the fall harness works in parallel with a strain relief that can be deployed that is anchored into the arresting line and allows you to put your foot in a stirrup and lift your weight up off your arteries Fun fact, the Boston Dynamics robot dog Spot is being used in Canada for high voltage switching operations. they have figured out how to get it to engage and disengage rack elements so if there's an arc flash event, only the doggo is at risk

[@timothy4664]

My wife is a general contractor and project manager. She gets really pissed off at some of these construction fails. The lack of safety standards around the world is really sad and tragic. She does love harmless fails or screw ups though.

[@jo_bro666]

11:43 a man of fine taste i see Subscribed to MrBeast and Mark Rober

[@crazeguy26]

what the two guys with the tire was doing a stretch fitment. so the tire is to be put on a 7 inch wide wheel but they put in on a 10 inch wide wheel.

[@sake3857]

How have you not reacted to Styropyros car batterie vid yet? It's soooo insane!!

[@aussiemanlyman2138]

DUDE, you missed the biggest hazard with that confined space bit. That red plastic box to the left of the vacuum was a gas powered generator, an engine pumping out bad exhaust gases, right next to the hole.

[@thinklist]

Yep true that 👍

[@VoidHalo]

0:27 Hey, they got some footage of Backyard Scientist in there! But why isn't he casting aluminum?

[@entropy-cat]

I'm glad that guy in the first vid had a hard hat on. Would be even better if he didn't fall several feet but still.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Remember if we don't enforce our building laws they're guidelines 😂

[@ranid0072]

11:25 so, that's an a critical error. They put a weel horizontally. On the hard floor. And probably overflowed, so it's just blast upwards

[@watcheater9229]

11:38 in automotive, you will never see anyone fitting tires to wheels like this. i mean tire machines exist but i guess if youre on a budget and dont care about how many fingers you have then this is an option

[@mmi6280]

There was a running generator next to the hole.

[@gebakken_salami]

how do you only have 33k subscribers

[@dmclegg66]

I'm a mechanic one thing I never do is the ether tire thing Ether is scary shit don't mess with it.#1 for tires is they will kill you treat them with respect NEVER stand over one while filling and NEVER put your foot on the rim One guy at a shop down the street was thrown up to the ceiling while he overfilled a tire he survived but he life was never the same.

[@thinklist]

Crazy

[@TradieTrev]

Teach us bro!!

[@davidmason5163]

75% rule is what's probably making you think somethings off 9:58

[@hamerzonBox]

dam i love your video and i and i am actually in the Dandenong Ranges

[@thinklist]

Legend 👍 Are you a tradie?

[@hamerzonBox]

no just like watching your video

[@Taurickk]

I grew up out there

[@The_Bell_Tower]

So. For confined spaces. The human body does not detect a lack of breathable air. It only detects a build up of carbon dioxide, that's the burning sensation when you hold your breath. No other non corrosive(immediately corrosive. Technically oxygen is on the list, otherwise) gas can be detected by the human body. You'll just pass out from a lack of breathable air. That's why a crew is so important.

[@JamesnLollify]

Good lord

[@peterrhodes2035]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@juanfelipecopete9368]

OMG looks like a Jackass escene

[@hamerzonBox]

14:45 does anyone notice the radiation hazard sign at the bottom

[@thinklist]

Good pickup 👍

[@tychosis]

A FORKLIFT IS *NOT* A CRANE

[@thinklist]

Yes it is

[@NathanaelNewton]

This video was waaay too much anxiety inducing to finish watching sorry omg..

[@samiraperi467]

8:50 Eh, just another day in Russia.

[@timesthree5757]

100,s of people per year out of billions

[@thinklist]

Yep and that’s 100s too many

[@timesthree5757]

@@thinklist um it's insignificant. I'm mean I just wanna get the job done. And not spending half a day putting up safety equipment.

[@MackFire_Sets]

Windmill video is fake, the owner himself said it.

[@thinklist]

Seriously, fooled me

[@MackFire_Sets]

@@thinklist Thank you for responding ! Me too first time when i see it. One night i spend watching these videos from windmill workers, and now i know they have big brakes for safety. Real windmill disasters are mostly from the brake that overheat it self and set it on fire. But some overspins are real on YT. Like 5 of them that i know of. (this all is what i learned from YT.) Just a quick video idea : Electrician Reacts to old electronics that have big electrical arc.

[@meep8212]

I believe the first windmill video is actually cgi made by a relatively famous artist who I can’t remembers name Edit: yo_dogo