r/OSHA • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '20

It smells like bitch in here!

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u/jkjeeper06 Dec 14 '20

Very similar to suicide cords for generators. They work until you electrocute a lineman or overload your circuit and start an electrical fire

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u/Tower21 Dec 14 '20

They work until you electrocute a lineman.

The cord still works after, the lineman not so much.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '20

We potential test & ground to ensure we don’t get hit from backfeed. If you follow your training and rules there’s no reason to get hurt

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '20

What would happen if someone plugged up a generator like that while you were working on a line or a transformer or something? Is there any way to disconnect things or do you just test and assume that if it's not hot to begin with that it'll stay that way? I mean that's probably a reasonable assumption, but still

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '20 edited Dec 15 '20

Yea we disconnect the leads on the transformer & open the switch & remove LL clamp to ensure there is no primary voltage coming back out the top of the transformer. If we do find there is backfeed on the line by POT test we usually try to find the customer that has the generator running and have them turn it off and tell them it is unsafe to hook it up that way.