December 31

TVA 4160V Arc Flash shuts down plant. 2 EE’s treated for smoke inhalation.

Posted by Hugh Hoagland
Filed under Electric Utility Incidents, Power plant incidents, Uncategorized | No Comments

TVA has an excellent arc flash PPE program. The Fox News story doesn’t say if they were working on the breaker or if it just failed.

Arc Flash Training and the right PPE make huge differences in arc events.

Click here to read the Fox News Story.

Click here to read a little more detailed story but it calls the incident a fire.

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