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« on: September 30, 2007, 18:19:36 »
last week i was working at a new housing development site in Telford,

me and a work mate were putting in some new gates and i was digging the post holes!

I started to dig a hole out by the garden wall, with the grafta when i got a spark and a burst of flames come out from the hole!

I had hit a mains cable!!! 240v!!!!

The site manager told us there were no cables anyware near where were digging! The company i work for took them to court and claimed 2k, for miss instruction!!

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« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2007, 18:39:00 »
Were you wearing rubber boots!!!!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2007, 18:41:28 »
luckly yeah i had a nice thick rubber sole on my steel toe caps!!!  :P
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« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2007, 18:54:36 »
Just for interest why did you feel obliged to claim compo? No harm no foul?
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« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2007, 18:57:57 »
it wasnt me that made the claim!

The company i work for made the claim.

Edited!
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« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2007, 18:58:21 »
Oh dear, your lucky mate  8-[
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« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2007, 19:08:50 »
I'm guessing the claim would have been made as that would have set back the project somewhat... shame - could have had a nice set of electric gates there  :wink:
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« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2007, 19:16:10 »
was your hair sticking up :lol:
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« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2007, 19:16:29 »
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I'm guessing the claim would have been made as that would have set back the project somewhat... shame - could have had a nice set of electric gates there  :wink:

 :lol:  :o  :twisted:
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« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2007, 19:44:36 »
Nice cables to hit those are. Mate of mine on the site I work on hit one with a pickaxe, made him jump slightly.
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« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2007, 19:57:38 »
haha yeah i bet!!! :lol:
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« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2007, 20:01:31 »
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Just for interest why did you feel obliged to claim compo? No harm no foul?


 fined , should have  got the sack to  !
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« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2007, 20:09:57 »
How did they manage to get them into court and claim 2k so quick, you say it happened last week.
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« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2007, 20:15:21 »
it was last saturday.

They were in court on Friday
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« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2007, 22:47:18 »
very lucky, water mains are another goodn ;)
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« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2007, 22:52:40 »
Can vouch for that one too!

Asbestos mains are tricky to work around! Luckily we had some room to negotiate who was going to foot the bill as the water board denied there being any asbestos pipe down there in the first place.
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« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2007, 08:53:54 »
Quote from: "Bigbluemaverick"
Just for interest why did you feel obliged to claim compo? No harm no foul?


Because a clause in most contracts that involve earth moving says that the main contractor is responsible for locating any and all services, mark them clearly, and responsible for any damage caused to or by unmarked services.

No harm caused this time (other than the supply cut and lost time for the contractor, which could result in other projects being delayed), but mistakes like that could easily cost in the 100s of thousands of £s, or at worst, a life.

My company drilled with a piling rig through a 40k volt mains, feeding one of the towers in Canary Warf. Main contractor's insurance had to fork out in the region of £150k, and that was just compensation to our company, for damage to the rig and risk to personnel. I was led to believe that the final amount between compensations and H&SE fines exceeded £2 million.

According to the lads on site, the spark was at least 30 feet in height :D
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« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2007, 14:37:48 »
Quote from: "The Landy Guy"
last week i was working at a new housing development site in Telford,

me and a work mate were putting in some new gates and i was digging the post holes!

I started to dig a hole out by the garden wall, with the grafta when i got a spark and a burst of flames come out from the hole!

I had hit a mains cable!!! 240v!!!!

The site manager told us there were no cables anyware near where were digging! The company i work for took them to court and claimed 2k, for miss instruction!!


:o Do you have any more pics?
How deep was it buried? Was it a single or multicore cable? Which side of the wall was it? If on the road side there may have been an illuminated road sign or lamp post near there in the past. If it was on the garden side it may have been a feed into whatever is/was there before.
Some cable-jointers have a habit of just capping off the end of a disused cable rather than backtracking it and disconnecting it at source - probably because they don't know where the supply end is. I saw some doing that when disconnecting the old lamp posts and connecting the new ones along my street.
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« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2007, 14:48:20 »
It what they have CAT cable detectors for. We weren't allow to dig anywhere unless someone had swept the digline for pipes and cables.

I know of a welsh farmer who cut through a National Grid cable and the repair bill was £75K the cable was oilfilled and had to be man handled in sections  almost half a mile from the nearest track. and spliced together took em 4 days to repair the damage.
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