Pulling down over head powerlines.

[Norcon]

bas wrote

Don't be surprised if you have to pay some compensation to them as well as the cost of the repairs.

No comment then bonehead?
Not even on the four china men getting fried?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I had a neighbour who was lifting scrap beside an electricity sub station with a hiab and he hit the lines. His mate rushed in to pull him away.
Both died.

Darwinism at work.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

No comment then bonehead?

Bonehead?

Remind me again who it was who drove a digger into overhead cables....

Not even on the four china men getting fried?

Does frying work for china?

I thought it had to be baked.

 

[Norcon]

Remind me again who it was who drove a digger into overhead cables....

Man who makes no mistakes makes sweet fa.
I reckon you make sweet fa.
The chinese are good at making stuff so make plenty of mistakes.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I think it's past your bedtime.

 

[Norcon]

Just got a bill for £2700 from NIE.

We don't mind paying for the severed cable but not the entire transformer.
We believe it's nie's fault that their fuse didn't save the transformer.
But how do we prove this?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Just got a bill for £2700 from NIE.

Might have been worse.

We don't mind paying for the severed cable but not the entire transformer.

The damage done was 100% down to you and your negligence and incompetence.

End of the day it is an overhead line it can be seen, there are HSE guidelines on how to avoid danger from them that do require you to notify NIE if working near power-lines.

Really you should feel relieved not to be facing any criminal charges.

We believe it's nie's fault that their fuse didn't save the transformer.
But how do we prove this?

I doubt you'll have any success with that.

 

[ChrisRogers]

Simple solution is to show them your full risk assessment for the job, the contact you had with the DNO before the work to check it was ok and wouldn't endanger you or others, and photos of the site before the work commenced correctly signed and laid out to prevent diggers Ect moving close to the power lines.

Oh wait...

 

[westie101]

We believe it's nie's fault that their fuse didn't save the transformer.
But how do we prove this?

Too many variables to prove it, you would also have to prove bad practice, but as I suspect that most of the other DNOs use the same fuse size it would be pretty impossible!!

 

[Norcon]

bas wrote

The damage done was 100% down to you and your negligence and incompetence.

Have a read back on the thread and you will see it was not I that was driving the machine.

Really you should feel relieved not to be facing any criminal charges.

Is that a fact? So how do you come to that conclusion?
Especially since I was no where near the accident when it happened.

OOh and I'm just a navvy btw. Nothing to do with the firm. Though I am the bossmans brother so I will be urging him to fight these barstewards.

I doubt you'll have any success with that.

We'll see. Your about as useful as ti*s on a bull.
No surprise there.

Wot you got to say now you f*****g arzewipe?

 

[mattysupra]

dont think i have read a thread yet that has taken my fancy that BAS hasn't upset someone LOL

Agreed, it is a stupid mistake. Its a accident and im sure they never ment to drive into the lines. Accidents happen.

However this is why we have risk / method statements to try and reduce this sort of thing happening. Im sure all parties have learnt and thank god no one was injured or worse killed.

 

[Norcon]

I'm not that upset yet. But if he posts any more snide comments then he'll really know just how upset I can get.
Maybe the mods should lock this one.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

bas wrote

The damage done was 100% down to you and your negligence and incompetence.

Have a read back on the thread and you will see it was not I that was driving the machine.

Really you should feel relieved not to be facing any criminal charges.

Is that a fact? So how do you come to that conclusion?
Especially since I was no where near the accident when it happened.

Well - since you also appear to be nowhere near a suitable level of competence at English, I'll try again with a few changes, and I'll start by reminding you of your opening post:

We pulled down a power line from a transformer to a property with the digger yesterday.

Just got a bill for £2700 from NIE.

Might have been worse.

We don't mind paying for the severed cable but not the entire transformer.

The damage done was 100% down to you (as in the collective "you" which is the "we" in your opening post, and the "we" in this one) and your negligence and incompetence.

End of the day it is an overhead line it can be seen, there are HSE guidelines on how to avoid danger from them that do require you to notify NIE if working near power-lines.

Really you (as in the collective "you" which is the "we" in your opening post, and the "we" in this one) should feel relieved not to be facing any criminal charges.

We believe it's nie's fault that their fuse didn't save the transformer.
But how do we prove this?

I doubt you (as in the collective "you" which is the "we" in your opening post, and the "we" in this one) will have any success with that.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

dont think i have read a thread yet that has taken my fancy that BAS hasn't upset someone LOL

Strange, isn't it, how people often get upset when their stupidity and incompetence are highlighted and their mistakes criticised.

Agreed, it is a stupid mistake. Its a accident and im sure they never ment to drive into the lines. Accidents happen.

They do.

And nearly always they are as a result of somebody making a mistake, and not doing what they should have done.

There are many instances where saying "I made a stupid mistake, it was an accident, I never meant to do it, accidents happen" is not going to help you one little bit.

However this is why we have risk / method statements to try and reduce this sort of thing happening.

Indeed.

End of the day it is an overhead line it can be seen, there are HSE guidelines on how to avoid danger from them that do require you to notify NIE if working near power-lines.

No excuse at all for hitting a power cable though.

No excuse at all for hitting a power cable though

Don't be daft.

Im sure all parties have learnt and thank god no one was injured or worse killed.

As I said, they should consider themselves lucky that they are not facing criminal charges.

 

[Norcon]

dont think i have read a thread yet that has taken my fancy that BAS hasn't upset someone LOL

Strange, isn't it, how people often get upset when their stupidity and incompetence are highlighted and their mistakes criticised.

Agreed, it is a stupid mistake. Its a accident and im sure they never ment to drive into the lines. Accidents happen.

They do.

And nearly always they are as a result of somebody making a mistake, and not doing what they should have done.

There are many instances where saying "I made a stupid mistake, it was an accident, I never meant to do it, accidents happen" is not going to help you one little bit.

However this is why we have risk / method statements to try and reduce this sort of thing happening.

Indeed.

End of the day it is an overhead line it can be seen, there are HSE guidelines on how to avoid danger from them that do require you to notify NIE if working near power-lines.

No excuse at all for hitting a power cable though.

No excuse at all for hitting a power cable though

Don't be daft.

Im sure all parties have learnt and thank god no one was injured or worse killed.

As I said, they should consider themselves lucky that they are not facing criminal charges.

Another stupid post from an arzewipe.