musht Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Footage not pleasant, drunk punter climbing truss fried on HV cables above https://nypost.com/2018/05/10/man-electrocuted-to-death-after-climbing-stage-at-music-festival/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 How did they manage to site and build a stage in a location with HV cables running ~1m above the truss???? I wouldn't be volunteering to cable tie that banner on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Yes, quite... what happened to several meters of separation?!? Prob best way to deter a climber is to clad the truss up to a couple metres... either plywood or a thick vinyl banner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigclive Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 I'm pretty sure a marquee company in the UK also caused an injury/death when they sited a tent right under an overhead line. They just seem to lack the common sense or ability to differentiate between telephone lines and high voltage distribution lines. That or they're idiots driven by greed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerry davies Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Cladding truss is usually unnecessary, David, as it is mostly behind barriers and pit crew here in the UK. It is common enough to use 8 foot ply boxes decorated up for circus tent king pole lattices when alcohol is involved but mostly some decor wrapping suffices. Our problem is stopping the artistes climbing the stuff though Clive, the MUTA guide even has stick men diagrams to simplify clearances with drawings of what poles carry which voltages. I haven't heard of a marquee associated fatality so a link would be much appreciated but we have a few incidents a year from ladder carrying. You know yourself that common sense is as rare as rocking horse sh1t and that we live in a short-termist greed society. The best we can hope is to learn, educate and illuminate. For all the complaints about "Elf'n'Safety Nazis" the UK is still one of the safest couple of places in the world to go to work. This incident in Brazil led me to look it up and until 1991 you were 50 times as likely to get killed at work in Brazil as the UK. In 2000 that fell to 30 times as likely but despite serious efforts it is still 15 times more likely that you will die at work in Brazil. And that is "as far as we know" because non-fatal work injury is hardly ever reported and even fatalities are under-reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam2 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 I wonder if the overhead lines were erected to power the event, and therefore not present, or not live when the trussing was built ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigclive Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 I wonder if the overhead lines were erected to power the event, and therefore not present, or not live when the trussing was built ? The violent electrical flash on contact suggests it was high voltage cabling. It's very unlikely that would be run in temporarily for an event. And definitely not above metal trusses where an induction risk could occur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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