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Terrible, I hope these folks are OK long term. I recall a similar incident, causing us to enact our DR plan a decade ago. A truck driver had a medical issue an
by tatersolid 4y ago
Terrible, I hope these folks are OK long term.
I recall a similar incident, causing us to enact our DR plan a decade ago. A truck driver had a medical issue and drove into the transformers outside a Rackspace facility. Emergency crews required everything to go dark for the rescue. High-power electric delivery is the Achilles heel of the cloud.
- inferiorhuman 4y agoDoubtful they'll be okay long term. Even if they survive the burns, electrocution does a number on most of your organs including your kidneys. I'm in no way to evaluate the veracity of the claims (which are mostly: electricity damages the body in a lot of different ways), but here's a graphic description of the damage electrocution does to the body: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026718/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026718/ What I'd read in a non-academic context is that the kidney damage suffered from electrocution takes more than a few years off your life expectancy. I couldn't (quickly) find an authoritative source discussing long-term survival but burns and acute rhabdomyolysis (like the paper above is talking about) on their own are no joke. It'll be interesting to see if Google opens up about what went wrong.
- ars 4y agoIt's unlikely to be both an arc flash and electrocution, and to survive for any length of time. Electricity powerful enough to cause an arc flash would instantly kill if it went through a body. It was more likely a tool shorted two conductors, and the arc flash harmed them, but no electricity went through them.