« Reply #881 on: February 10, 2023, 09:28:08 pm »
@Slide Rule
I started to groan and reached to massage my back, just from spotting that photo.
I worked at an electric utility.One night we had an outage which was caused by an employee of a customer.They are in the metal reclaiming business.The man was operating a crane with a giant electro magnet. The crane was motorized on a rail track. The operator was sorting metal.He was dropping the electro magnet which weighed about a ton chasing a rabbit.He dropped the magnet and the rabbit scurried for its life.He was moving down the track while he was dropping the magnet.The crane was extended while it was moving which caused an issue.He ran the crane into a high voltage line and zapped the crane.Remarkably the operator was not hurt. There were weld marks on the track in strips as the transmission line tried to reclose and tripped again.He was going quite fast.Next day at our staff meeting our Transmission manager reported what the customer found.The customer reported that former employee, gave his name, acted in a reckless manner.Our managers were suggesting sentences that he could put on his next job application as to why he left his prior employer.
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