News Forum - Thai man fatally electrocuted trying to steal electrical cable in Khon Kaen

[Thaiger]

The dead body of a Thai man was found wedged in a small crevice beneath a commercial building on Lang Mueang Road in the Isaan province of Khon Kaen on Monday. According to reports, the man was attempting to steal the electrical cable and was fatally electrocuted during the act. Residents living near a commercial …

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[HolyCowCm]

Article quote: Officers attempted to retrieve the body from the narrow gap but their efforts were in vain as the bloated corpse was wedged tightly inside. They concluded that some parts of the building would need to be dismantled to extract the body and this would require approval from the building owner.

Or they could have harpooned him then just pull him out after he deflated.

[perceblue]

Shocking, positively shocking.

[Ramanathan.P]

Million dollar questions...WHY THE SYSTEM NEVER TRIP OR CUT OFF OR ANY WARNING?. Which means the electrical circuit system itself is not safe. 

[Grumpish]

4 minutes ago, Ramanathan.P said:

Million dollar questions...WHY THE SYSTEM NEVER TRIP OR CUT OFF OR ANY WARNING?. Which means the electrical circuit system itself is not safe. 

Probably because the circuit breakers had been bypassed to save someone the trouble of having to go and reset them when something tripped them.

[Ramanathan.P]

14 minutes ago, Grumpish said:

Probably because the circuit breakers had been bypassed to save someone the trouble of having to go and reset them when something tripped them.

Possible.....however in most cases it would be faulty. Because people seldom check the system on a monthly basis. That is the reality. So the circuit breakers were jammed and never trip at all.......forever

[Rookiescot]

26 minutes ago, Ramanathan.P said:

Million dollar questions...WHY THE SYSTEM NEVER TRIP OR CUT OFF OR ANY WARNING?. Which means the electrical circuit system itself is not safe. 

Trips will not stop you getting killed. Under the right conditions 1mAmp will kill a person. If a trip is rated at 15 amps then you are long gone before it activates.

They are there to protect equipment not people.

[Ramanathan.P]

1 minute ago, Rookiescot said:

Trips will not stop you getting killed. Under the right conditions 1mAmp will kill a person. If a trip is rated at 15 amps then you are long gone before it activates.

They are there to protect equipment not people.

Agreed....4m Am will arrest the heart. But if the RCCB is effectively functioning then the system would have tripped instantly because there is a lot of earth leakages in the electrocution. 

[Rookiescot]

11 minutes ago, Ramanathan.P said:

Agreed....4m Am will arrest the heart. But if the RCCB is effectively functioning then the system would have tripped instantly because there is a lot of earth leakages in the electrocution. 

No that's not how they work. A normal circuit breaker would simply see a higher demand put upon it. If it did not reach its maximum rating then it will still not trip.

 

[Ramanathan.P]

30 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

No that's not how they work. A normal circuit breaker would simply see a higher demand put upon it. If it did not reach its maximum rating then it will still not trip.

Well....I am mentioning here about the "Residual Current" that return back to the circuit. That is the only way to protect. Should any drop in the current in the returning path, then the RCCB will trip cutting of the entire circuit. This mainly causes when there is an earth leakage in the circuit. To be safe the RCCB should be 100mA breaker. However if it is 300mA breaker...for sure it will not trip

[Aussieroaming]

Same thing happened at work a couple of times when desperate people decided to try and steal buried HV cables, that were energized and in use. The thieves came off second best each time.