Gas Turbine Accident

6.5 million dollars blown in a few seconds

[@MegaJohnhammond]

at least they dropped it I the right spot

[@jakelencher817]

yeah.. ye know the bends and stuff thats fine itll work.

[@Leo.Wirabuana]

02:33 thank you sir.

[@penelope-oe2vr]

Close enough! Lol

[@manga12]

@@jakelencher817 only wobbles a little looks legit as they say and give a thumbs up

[@Peter.Lecomte]

😂 fucking nailed it. Hate to see something like this, but the signal guy was on point.

[@11guyinthechair]

People in charge '' Oh, look at the time, Im off to Mexico!''

[@TheeOC]

This aged well lol

[@EvanLuft]

QUICK FIX: manually bend each blade back and just eyeball it.... before the boss finds out. :p

[@prestonburton8504]

wouldn't want to be around it during startup though!

[@AB-80X]

@@prestonburton8504 Balance-smalance... Onwards and upwards.

[@andreweppink4498]

Nope!

[@FireMouseHQ]

!!! at 2:25 . Never never never walk under a load !

[@dj6769]

Some put way too much trust in machinery, if it's made by a man it will wear out tear up fail break, size means nothing

[@jakelencher817]

yeah he was kinda scaring me there

[@jakelencher817]

if he decided to do that a couple seconds later then he would be dead

[@tinyjudoka6024]

I know, I cringed sooo hard when I saw him do that. Imagine getting impaled by houndreds of compressorblades and then crushed by the whole shaft assembly.

[@tbeck]

@@tinyjudoka6024 you mean turbine blades, correct?

[@AgentJayZ]

Yikes! The blade damage is dramatic, but really, the whole thing is junk now: all blades, disks, the shaft, the stators, the bearings. They're now back way farther than when they first started the overhaul. At colossal expense, for sure.

[@kornysinclair9145]

Non replaceable ..Scrapped

[@willrall869]

A turban has no stators or bearings

[@willrall869]

It can be repaired and my plant the same thing happened a 50 megawatt was dropped a strap broke 1 year later GE delivered it and installed it.

[@willrall869]

You have no knowledge of turbins,thete ate no stators or bearing on a turbin.

[@pierrekinbrand]

Lol Will, the stator is the name of the part that goes in between the turbine blade sections in order to prevent the gas from rotating as it flows through the turbine, and the bearings are clearly visible in this video…

[@Jangle2007]

Utterly painful to watch.

[@SKYLANDBAK]

I find mans folly quite amusing.Should have been a fail safe crane system.Oh well,live & learn.Atleast there was no loss of life..

[@MickyMoz]

I have worked around cranes for 36 years. Driven them about 12.I have never seen one fail that way.Generally people working beneath cranes seem to think they have nine lives.

[@jackthecat6225]

Why would it fail if it was rated to carry that load? would it be a maintenance issue? or was it most likely exceeding it's load limit?

[@andrewyork3869]

​@jackthecat6225 in this video or in general?

[@chandlerh2408]

​@@jackthecat6225It wasn't, I read the crane was rated for 60 tons and the turbine was 75 or so

[@joeyjamison5772]

"At Farmer's Insurance, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing of two!""

[@smartrubberchicken]

Also at Farmers insurance: Drops are not covered

[@drosera88]

"Psh... why order a fancy lift system for tens of thousands of dollars when I can get what's basically the exact same thing for only $599.99 at 'Harbor Freight.' I mean come on, no one will know the difference anyways!"

[@ejnaygfantzcg]

Especially when it's carrying stuff 100 times its own value :D

[@mitchellspanheimer1803]

@@ejnaygfantzcg That's over 10,000 times its value if you could get such a lift at Harbor freight for $600

[@kimmer6]

As a General Electric Company Field Engineer, I installed many turbine rotors like this one. Usually I put them in a little slower.... I'm certainly glad these guys emptied their pockets before getting near the open casing.

[@ronalddavis]

You wouldn't happen to know the old guy who worked on the sl-7 ships awhile back? I worked with him on a couple of ships back in the early 2000's,he must have been in his early 70's back then...Nothing he didn't know about steam ships. Could be an ornery old bastard though.lol.didnt much care for black folks. cant remember his name only that he was a GE rep.

[@Ed_Row_Feez]

Tell us the paper towel FME story

[@jackfrost2146]

The guy should have reached out and grabbed it to stop it from falling.

[@reefy5316]

Jack Frost is this a joke?

[@jackfrost2146]

@@reefy5316 The big question is--were you joking when asking me if I was joking?

[@reefy5316]

Jack Frost no actually theres no way he couldve grabbed such a thing despite the manliest man he can emit

[@jackfrost2146]

@@reefy5316 Do you think that the 33 "thumbs up" that my comment got were agreeing with me, or that they were laughing at my joke?

[@reefy5316]

Jack Frost ?????

[@zestydude87]

"Like a glove!"

[@GeekBoyMN]

Out of all the crane accidents I've seen in videos or read about, this is the first where a winch failed. It's usually a cable or some part of the actual rigging that fails. Either way somebody is out a chunk of money even if nobody gets hurt. Glad nobody was hurt in this one.

[@Holiday48000]

This poor Crain Operator most likely received a lot of "Atta-Boy's" & pats on his back for the many good lifts in the past. But it only takes one "O-Shit" to wipe all them Atta-Boy's all out and lose your job.

[@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757]

Actually it's the entire factory's fault The turbine weighed 75 tons The crane was rated for 60 tons

[@syed_taha_ahmed]

​@@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 So who the hell gave clearance or issued permit. I work at CCPP and before every HGPI CI or MI we check the crane load test certificate it is mandatory.

[@eldorado96]

Yup - love to know more about this one. So sad, seeing finely constructed hardware destroyed by cheap shit castings in the crane. I'm guessing that was some sort of transmission shaft with busted off engagement dogs. It explains that mechanical scream just before it came ALL the way loose. No excuse for not using forged components in that drive train.

[@s0nnyburnett]

Harbor freight crane.

[@phuturephunk]

I spit my drink out over that. Oh my God, so true. Still, I can't stop buying certain crap from them.

[@s0nnyburnett]

phuturephunk Neither can I. They sell some oddly specific things at rock bottom prices.

[@closed9035]

LMAO

[@Fc3s1988]

Lol at harbor freight has a decent warranty plan

[@computerboy9766]

phuturephunk It's still funny though.

[@AirCargoHeavy]

I just started working in this business and man, this drives home one very important lesson: stay out from under the load!

[@henrikgormsen1020]

Thats the most expensive bang i ever heard....

[@ROBwithaB]

Ooops. P.S Skip to the 3 minute mark to save yourself the *agonising suspense* of waiting for the inevitable.

[@carlnapp8673]

I hope the one who did the maintenance has got some friends in South America to hide

[@jkw427]

That guy at 2:25 should thank his lucky stars he wasn't a gooey puddle under that. A few seconds later he would have been.

[@progoskar]

That guy sure had a guarding angle that day.

[@gavenbrantley3294]

Oskar Enback Junkka was it an obtuse or acute angle?

[@msotil]

***** Obviously, obtuse.

[@progoskar]

***** msotil I would guess on an (a)Cute Angel ;)

[@imrankhandsce1]

no body will go under load in any way...that guy was also doing the same to check installation...safety guys never allow to stand under even when one blade is being installed that was a whole set of Compressor and turbine with rotor...

[@janj0n]

Harbor Freight lifting equipment?

[@rearspeaker6364]

+janj0n How did you know!!! looks like it to me.

[@Metalloys]

+rear speaker the steel ropes broke - right? or did the whole crane collapse? out of curiosity - who did the Management fuck on this one?

[@rearspeaker6364]

+A.H. Shukry IMO, lack of daily inspections especially before heavy lifts like this---looks like the bearings at the input shaft of the gearbox failed, causing the shaft to load sideways under load, when the fenner coupling failed the input shaft broke thru the brake band asmby., causing the gearbox to freewheel, dumping the load, but thats my 25 cent review of this--mgt. saved a dollar, but they f%$#@ed themselves here!!!

[@MrGGPRI]

Top comment of the year....

[@billporter9494]

janj0n whups!, ya let the bean counters do the talking, save a few bucks!, are you sure that part needs replaced?, this part is the new, and improved version!, it'll work much better.

[@Xingmey]

lol this is so painful to watch. the whole ingeneering masterpiece just a pile of junk in mere miliseconds

[@cook4ian]

About that couplea million dollar turbin' we just bought.... yea... it was nice an all but we kinda need another one, hope it's no big deal.

[@carmelpule6954]

I do not like the nature and the size of that grain in the metal at 3.49.

[@AfrewSpines]

+Carmel Pule' I was thinking the same thing. I don't even know anything about metal, but it just doesn't look right to me.

[@chadsteimel9066]

+AfrewSpines It's Okay.... Neither does Carmel Pule apparently.

[@semmtexx]

Looks like a cast coupling? I've seen this type of metal used on couplings for 7.5 hp pumps and they take a crap in basically the same way.

[@rearspeaker6364]

+semmtexx thats a "fenner"coupling- used in the EU -fenner taperlocks adapt the coupling to the shaft--seen these in screening plants--when one looked like this on a plant, someone took a maul to it,because they forgot to loosen the 2 allen head screws around the taperlock to close the gap between the coupling halves.

[@SquillyMon]

+Carmel Pule' I thought the same exact thing....and then I thought....wtf is that metal doing there in a high load situation.

[@Darthbelal]

Plop the turbine assembly down in front of a modern "art" museum and it'll look a hell of a lot better than the usual crap they got..........

[@fededevi1985]

Darth Belal To quote artists: "They would not understand". Engineering = useful art.

[@1Cobranut]

Kousheng nuclear power plant in Taiwan has an old turbine rotor on display at their entrance, sitting out in the rain, of all places. I wonder just how long it took to decon that thing to free release it, considering it's a BWR plant, and the turbines run on primary steam. :-o

[@BudionoSukses]

insurance will cover it?

[@drichard12]

They had it lined up good because it fell right into place.

[@sciencoking]

Gonna need a _lot_ of duck tape for this one

[@TheCalgarycanuck]

Worked on many a steam and gas turbine rotor swap as a millwright with no problems, that rotor would weigh less than the cover which was removed first, the crane would be rated to handle the cover weight, it appears the hoist coupling failed.

[@TheCalgarycanuck]

That sling held, crane didn't.

[@ronalddavis]

Yeah looked like they had it rigged right. Spreader beam and plenty big enough straps. I have been involved in many rigging evolutions and you can get complacent sometimes.i worked in the shipyard and sometimes because of space constraints you HAD to get under the load in order to land it. or refuse and lose your job.

[@vincentrusso4332]

Load brake not adjusted properly was another issue a former crane operator brought up.

[@blthetube1]

I swear to God.......That's how we got it!!

[@DavidVonR]

Lol

[@TheOriginalEviltech]

***** Oh, ok. Here is another one. It's invisible and no one can touch it.

[@sawanyboy]

Now , send the turbine to museum

[@kpdvw]

That is one huge aw-shit! "Dropped Object!"

[@richardmerriam7044]

I watched another version of this video which was narrated. The initial damage estimate (rough) was around 5-10 million dollars (US). I believe they said the blades were titanium. Lloyds of London, anyone?

[@Omerta1911]

Looks like a GE Frame 9E. Wow that's an expensive failure

[@prestonburton8504]

i know its been a long time but if you are around- whats the mw rating for this guy?

[@Omerta1911]

@@prestonburton8504 140MW ish

[@prestonburton8504]

@@Omerta1911 wow! thank you!

[@AB-80X]

@@Omerta1911 I may be mistaken, but I recall reading that this was actually a Siemens turbine.

[@leehype]

That is why you never stand under a load.

[@demondik]

"Uh, yeah... I just pissed myself... Over." "That's a big 10-4. So did I. Over." Christ those two guys down in the area close to where that turbine is mounted were very luck to have been able to clock themselves out that day!

[@d.e.b.b5788]

Just sell it to Malaysian Airlines with the next batch for 10% off. They'll buy anything.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

***** It was an attempt at sarcasm. sorry you didn't get it.

[@curtis133]

Nailed it! good job boys lunch time.

[@mickcarson8504]

Ah well, you learn from taking shortcuts and buying cheap material. That's China for you.

[@ElementofKindness]

it'll buff out.

[@basimpsn]

@ 2:17 the guy in the yellow helmet very lucky

[@bbigrocker1]

NEVER stand under a lifted load, EVER

[@jefferysmith6658]

bbigrocker1 he wasn't under it. that is why he didn't die.

[@bbigrocker1]

Jeffery Smith being UNDER is not a requirement for dying when heavy shit is falling

[@chrispeterson5890]

Go pee in the cup... Seriously though, it sounds to me like the winch broke. you can hear gears screaming and stripping right before the earth-shattering KABOOM!

[@noneck8166]

This is why you never lift anything before lunch....

[@GeneralWagner]

almost dropped a tear here, what a beautiful turbine, and is gone in seconds, because a fucking crane. loss like this can bring down a company

[@bonjourmssr]

+GeneralWagner Is the turbine even salvageable? As in re-machine and balance, or just build a new one??

[@furnacify]

+bonjourmssr Yes its salvageable but very expensive, and it will cost 1-2 years. The rotor is too damaged. 180 degree on the underside, and in the upper center from the traverse impact. Even the underside of the housing, wont look well. Mostly there will be replacement from another powerplant, which has gone offline. If there are more turbines of the same type in one plant, there is often a replacement rotor in stock.

[@Brunnen_Gee]

It's pretty obvious that they don't really give a crap about safety judging by the two guys that walked under it while it was being lowered. That should never have happened.

[@corpsie666]

Ohhhh, that grain and the clean snap of cast metal failure.

[@leexr2i]

@Skyisnotalimit Yes the 1st stage buckets (that is what we call turbine blades) have a ceramic tbc coating.. the cost is more like $20 million plus i think. I repair and build these for a living,.

[@kennyfreeman9278]

I’ve done every part of this procedure many times, mostly as the crane operator, the notorious weak link of those crane’s were the load brake being not adjusted right, that one was having trouble holding the load, you can hear the motor over rev, this can cause multiple things to fail, usually the gearbox or coupling. They dropped the stator at my plant after I retired and killed a boy on the turbin deck.

[@vincentrusso4332]

Wow, thanks for the inside info with the load brake. I'm gonna say that you are spot on with your diagnosis. I'm assuming this isn't stateside so no OSHA report to read. Again, thanks. - Surry Virginia

[@evkeeney2851]

I used to make those blades at Turbocare and they ain't cheap.

[@SuperTechIT]

Don't worry Jim....the maximum load rating is a guideline...these things can handle twice the recommended max...OH HOLY SHIT!!!! What do we do Jim? Jim??? JIM???? where are you running Jim????

[@syed_taha_ahmed]

😂😂😂

[@paredding]

Dead right - how calm was that guy next to the casing bed. There was a lot of cracking noises going on as it was moved oved the turbine casing.

[@tlfrantz1]

That'll buff right out...

[@leexr2i]

we lift these with a 100t Clarke Chapman overhead crane.. its around 80years old and beautiful.. is so solid even when lifting a 78ton 9fa it dont bounce one bit... but getting parts is not possible, everything has to be made and its trouble maintaining her.. be getting new crane soon i think.

[@barryhughes9764]

Talk about the sh...hitting the fan.

[@SpartanElite43]

Wouldn't that be the fan hitting the Sh..?

[@Ribsnikker]

I really hope you didn't burn a dvd with this video, just to record it off of your tv to upload it to KZbin.

[@robertcloud8928]

As the saying goes, never be underneath a hanging load.

[@Mr69renegade]

especially sharp, pointy ones :P

[@AbdulHafeez-cq6oo]

The failure of the winch or brake of the crane due to overloading .for such critical lifting the certification of the crane must have been checked or overlooked .Such accident normally happen due to hurry of the managment to put the machine back to operation ASAp

[@ponkkaa]

This is obviously a case of Framistan modulator overpressurising the Finnigan spleen joint. Or is it spline joint.

[@MilwaukeeDrinkers]

Actually it was an over-charged flux capacitor bearing.

[@ponkkaa]

I knew that...really, I did.

[@sendembak]

That 'Gas Turbine' is a STEAM TURBINE as is used in the generation of electricity.

[@EricJaakkola]

Fire it up, I'm sure it's fine.

[@Ian-iu2tl]

Chinesium failure. Two machinists in the adjoining shop "Hey Fred, told ya' didn't I". Response; "Yep, just keep your eyes on your lathe and pretend nothing happened"

[@28yogy4todd]

Stress point- where forged hardened steel should have been used instead of cast on that particular component? I do not know, just saying. Thank you for the excellent video. It is definitely a learning experience for all, and I am glad no one was hurt.

[@R5H4D0W]

someone forgot to do preventive maintenance on that crane

[@bruce2357]

Nothing a truckload of duct tape can't fix.

[@goodkarma33]

Like a new car thats been in a wreck, you sell it after the repairs because you know it will never be 100% again. What aircraft tail number did this go on, so I never fly on it?

[@dave0mary]

Lucky for them it fell right into place! :)

[@manosxa]

That is why we studied structural engineering

[@dead_p1xl964]

Eh, it landed mostly in place. A little wax and that will buff right out.

[@jestnessj3574]

Looked like the Hillary Clinton campaign. :p

[@ItsSpeltChayce]

jestness j OHHHHHHHHHHHH ALL FEMINISTS ARE TRIGGERD OHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[@NickyDIY101]

the hoist is a lot cheaper than the turbine.

[@ChuckHeil]

I saw a replacement gas turbine on its stands waiting to be put in at a Nuclear Power plant around ten years ago. It didn't look to be real heavy. Not over 50000 lbs. A crane like the one that failed must have gotten their parts cheap or it wouldn't have failed. I'm sure it was rated well over what ever it weighed. But then a worker removing the cover of the turbine being replaced was throwing/flipping a wrench in the air while standing on the cover. This was in PA so who knows.

[@leexr2i]

can you tell me how many compressor bolt hols your "18th stage" has? 15 or 16?

[@idbosman]

Looks like an average day at a Eskom power station!!!

[@toddavis8603]

Back to the design and build shop!

[@the.russianbear]

Just a little duck tape and it will be fine!

[@sgengco6060]

I work for Siemens and we think all GE rotors should be fitted this way ...........

[@K4Fusion]

Also, it's almost hard to believe that all that instant destruction came from the failing of a relatively inexpensive "LoveJoy" coupling.

[@workonitm8]

Viewed it again and you're correct. I was still thinking about the accident when I typed that. That fellow in the yellow hard hat doesn't know how lucky he is to be alive. What failed?

[@phillipjensen4362]

that guy in the bottom was lucky he mover 2:24

[@leexr2i]

the turbine blades on this unit (9E) are not single crystal.. the more modern 9FB turbine are tho! they are all still made from a hi nickle super alloy.. the compressor blades are just made from stainless steel as they dont have to cope with much heat as for titanium, these heavy duty land based turbines dont use titanium as its to expensive and there is no need to save weight.. Ti is just used in aviation. even then the turbine blades will allways be nickle alloy..

[@tjsocorrista1]

This is the problem when you turn a bunch of drunk union members loose on a project!

[@mclarpet]

Where are the fecking band brakes on the hoisting drum ?

[@AndrejPodzimek]

Luckily, it seems that no people were injured in this accident. That's a very positive piece of information. Yes, the turbine is completely destroyed (since it cannot be balanced properly again, no matter how carefully it is repaired), but it's just a block of metal. A value of $6.5 million can be produced pretty quickly by a small team of people, but there is no monetary value that could compensate for human health or life.

[@ehsnils]

Looks like they either overloaded the crane or had a part in the crane that was too weak. Sucks either way. At least it didn't look like anyone was hurt.

[@andrewnorgrove6487]

very nicely bedded ) a job well done.

[@nunyabusiness7630]

I guarantee they have a PRE-HOIST inspection procedure from now on and learn how to properly lift within the load range it is rated for. Someone lifted something too heavy at some point in time........ That sucks!

[@DrLeroyGreen]

Like a glove! ..but why is there an edit @ 2:28 ?

[@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757]

Because it probably took forever till it dropped

[@block672008]

never mind them few tiny scratches or bends, after all it fits - guys from the financial dept. shall solve this minor issue..;D;p

[@rgorazd]

I'd say lack of maintenance of the crane.

[@ronalddavis]

I agree with you. But you know sometimes shit just breaks despite your best efforts.

[@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757]

No, the crane had an operating load of 60 tons, that turbine weighed 75

[@CHITORRES2333]

I used to work for GE as a project specialist, One of the engineers gave me a copy of this 3 years ago.... This was in a plant in Germany... I remember this. thanks for posting it...

[@syed_taha_ahmed]

This happened with GE turbine? Now GE Fieldcore Provides its services in outages supervose by CSA personnel

[@_gungrave_6802]

skip to 2:24 if you want to see it.

[@milangacik-repcik1224]

Let´s call it from now Scholz turbine.

[@ericwsmith7722]

whats that, about a 40 million dollar crane accident, ?, not counting late fees,

[@Badhands55]

Went in like butter

[@davidgrisez]

That turbine rotor had to weigh at least 50 tons. When that rotor fell everyone in the power plant must have felt the floor jump under them and heard the sound of the crash.

[@MisterPikol]

at least he had a helmet on, otherwise it might've been dangerous

[@ChrisWright7701]

Bet his pants changed colour!

[@campbell8413]

this is why we cant have nice things!

[@lizardking5237]

Well that's one way to do it. Larry, curly and Moe couldn't have done it better. Another job well done. Give those boys a cigar :)

[@sarethums]

"Gas Turbine Accident" that sounds like something id enjoy