Why bother paying attention to overhead power lines when you’re pushing a 2 storey high scaffold tower, right? Shit happens everywhere, but Chinese workplace safety is just as stellar as their driving.
I feel awfully sorry for these four painters. Disassembling and reassembling a scaffold tower is a pain in the arse – that’s why they put wheels on it so they could easily move it around. That keeps their workflow smooth but disregarding the danger of overhead power lines when handling anything high enough to touch them and capable of conducting electricity is nothing short of a death sentence. Might as well strap oneself onto an electric chair and have the timer turn on the power switch.
The painters fried instantly. You can see fire and smoke coming out of their body within instance. As soon as the scaff touched the power lines, they were all paralyzed and from there it just kept getting worse. Magically, one of the painters came to after 2 minutes of electrocution and started crawling his way out of there – with one extra collapse along the way. The other three died – two on the spot, one later in a hospital. The stench of burning flesh must have been horrid.
Chinese news site reported that scaffold’s rubber wheels melted from the contact with high tension wires and were stuck to the ground. One of the painters had face burned black with his hair standing up.
Easily one of the creepiest videos I’ve seen. The electricity makes them completely powerless and unable to escape its deadly grasp. Always said to see working people die trying to make money to feed their family:
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the boss told them to move it other side there for this is homicide even a camera is placed just for everyone to see how shocking amazing videos of death and beyond
So by your account the boss purposely told the chinese peons to go die by electrocution, typical chinese boss rather than to pay em’the wages he owed em.
chinese rat jerky, they will be as stupid in after life too
wish it’s in color, smoked meat is the best
As the walk, one of them talks to himself.
“Don’t rook up the boss said, don’t mind the powa cabers, they won’t erectrocute you, he said…”
ZAAAAAP
what a shitty way to die
They, not as “the walk” my b
Dont touch it chin
yeah, now hes blowin smoke out his ass
Jesus christ! Shoulda looked up.
Very sad, just a bunch of workers trying to provide for their family and shit just happens.
Note to self: Don’t always be observe power lines or exposed wires. Just like that one brazilian eletricution.
*English failed*
that was a sick electrocution. you can the intensity of electricity escaping the bottoms of their feet.
if they were believeing in what you just said, they sure picked the wrong savior
Shocking!
You have killed me with laughter, shocking isn’t it?
Bahahaha…..lame bro
thats why my scaffolds are made of bamboo
looks to be raining as well…
less gooks in the world. not such a bad thing. allahu akbar.
yeah it’s too bad you weren’t there…..
just joking
Didn’t believe that one was alive at end.
That’s what I call to be a Lucky Bastard !
Just think of how confused he must have been. One second your pushing a scaffold and zap you’re unconscious and you wake up not realizing what happenee and all three of your buddies are laying there on fire and twitching and shit.
Probably frying nervs reacting to false electrical signals.
That poor guy on the left is struggling to get up while he’s frickin on fire! If I were him, I think I’d just reach over and grab the scaffold again to finish the job. Great vid!
I hear you! I woulda spread my jaws as widely as my incinerated face would allow, and then bite down on a scaffold cross-member like it was a jumbo sized AM/PM hotdog.
The synchronicity @ 23 seconds is worthy of that of an Olympic team. Well done lads! I would give you all 10′s for that performance.
Thanks, I just inhaled most of my Margarita.
Lost track of what the straw was for?
There’s a sayin in the FD that goes LOOK UP TO LIVE when moving extension ladders around,this video shows what happens when you don’t.. the guy far left and front right made better contact after falling, think that’s why they got TOASTY! Vid put me in the mood for some fried wontons..
Cheap goods, cheap electric, cheap water, cheap rain, cheap life
that about sums it up quite nicely
ok, now i finally have admitted to myself after watching 202 pages of best gore, that there is just too many ways to die. so i give up, fuck it!!!
no sense in trying to be careful all the time.
This is what I am thinking too. Someone I had met, a late twenties fit guy with a bright future apparently fell from his twenty floor building because he has had too much alcohol and sat on the ledge. We can choke to death the next time we eat fish balls. Who knows?
I’ve never seen fish balls, they must be tiny.
Here in Asia they have fish balls half the size of an apple.
Never seen caviar? Quite tasty treat.
Awesome!!!!! I just had a goregasm.
Smoken
that guy on the left hung on like a fucking champ. who’s the boss now electricity?
And he’s the one who lived!
You’d think with there squinty eyes they would have better vision I guess their eyes were pretty much shut
flied lice
Out of all 4 of them, I was suprised that the guy on the left was still alive; not only was he electricuted, he had fire to contend with too. Funny how fate deals some strange cards.
Final Destination!
Darwinism… I fucking love it!
wow that was awesome….just awesome
ohh and by the way, please listen to macabre!
“Ha! I WIN! I’m still hanging on! And, I’m a Girl, you wus niggaz!”
Well, you needed American eyes (4 quarts open) to actually see this coming.
That…..was……AWESOME!!!!!!
That’s so freaky. I’m surprised that 1 dude was able to get up and out of there.. Poor bastards!
Ya, I was shocked myself.
Well, that’s just too damn bad now isn’t it? On to the next few…
Looks like the survivor didn’t go for sending for the others. It’s all about me me me over there in China.
See you soon my tiny yellow brothers haha
Being tased is not only incapacitating but it causes all your muscles to tense up, these guys couldn’t let go even if they knew what was going on. I wonder though with this kind of severe electricution at witch point do you lose consciousness.
Probably not till they died.
fucker hit the damn then AGAIN when trying to leave, then as his legs kept kicking, it looks llike it keeps shocking him over and over
wooow
poor fuckers
I grew up in China and always wondered why scaffolds there were always made of bamboo… now I know why… RIP painters… poor dudes
That moment when they hit the power lines and dropped was sick. The way they were all just hanging there, awesome
I agree. Seeing their movement just stop and hang there while getting zapped was priceless. Reminds me of the time I grabbed an arcing spark plug wire on a running car and could’nt let go. It’s a scary feeling.l
so sad. BBQ asian ribs. my fav.
Technically they were fried.
roasted.
Absolutely the worst time to die… While working. Yeah, that’s what I want my last experience in life to be; doing some shitty job instead of enjoying myself. That’s what I call being cheated. I hope I die on my couch with an empty beer can next to me as the credits roll for some cheap ass movie like Conan the Destroyer. That’s what I call winning.
I hope to die chained to a marble slab at the hands of a horde of horny gore fiends.
that can be arranged.
Yes it can.
“…for a fee, I’m happy to be, your back door man.
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap…”.
Wait – I pay you? Meh, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve paid to be tortured.
Truly amazing video, one of the best I’ve ever seen on BG.
Yea , same here . Poor guy on fire , he is still moving after nine minutes of shear hell ! Tough mother.
Has’nt anyone ever told these guys that smoking is not permitted in the work place?
For a second there I thought my computer froze because there was no movement going on but then I saw the flames dancing about and realized it was just the men who stopped moving. If you’ve ever been zapped by electricity for any amount of time you know that it’s hard if not impossible to let go of whatever is zapping you. Your muscles just lock up and can’t do what your mind is telling them so you just kinda hang on for the ride and hope it stops soon.
hahaah
I thought the same thing when all movement suddenly stopped.
Electricity, the gift that keeps on giving, even long after your dead.
That scaffolding certainly had a ‘Made In China’ look about it. Judging by the way it shook when that guy ran into it I’d say they would all die next time they used it anyway.
This is when you are somewhat happy with your job being in Canada. Our strict Ministry of Labour laws, even though they are a pain in my ass , save lives every day. I myself climb scaffolding on a regular basis performing quality check inspections. I would be hard pressed to climb that fuckin (K-TEL ) , Mickey Mouse outfit they call a scaffold . It is sad to see these poor guys not make it home for dinner. R.I.P.
With ALL the people in China where the heck were they to help these poor sods?
And what did they think that putrid smell was… the local restaurant’s daily special?!
Amazing to see the one walk away from it though.
Paint your way out of that !
Shesh guys, if you wanted the afternoon off ya coulda just asked.
It looks like they were playing Rodeo Poker..
“OK! Last one to let go wins!!!!”
Watch a video of rodeo poker and tell me if there isn’t a startling resemblance.
the boss told them “last one holding on gets a raise” hahaha
A similar incident happened this weekend in the Los Angeles area. I guy ran into a fire hydrant and something caused power lines to drop down into the flood of water. Two women ran to help the driver and walked into the water and were immediately electrocuted and died. To add insult to injury, I read today that the city will bill the two women’s families for the ambulance services. Be a Good Samaritan, and get billed for it for your trouble and death.
I read about that too, the woman didn’t realize there was water there.
I think the heading was ‘Good Samaritans fry saving construction worker’.
the city official or whoever billed should be shot to death.
damn, i found the amount of smoke unbelievable. i think dying would’ve been the preferable option…even if that last man did survive, his life is probably ruined forever.
Maybe if chinks had vertical slits instead of horizontal ones this accident could have been avoided.
Go on….
that one guy on the left has a bone fire going smoking like a frak train. but he isn’t doing the chug chug chug ether