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"People will call it an explosion because when this arc expands and draws, it will give a thud or a bang, but it's not like a hand grenade or a bomb going off - it's not that kind of explosion," says Jim LaChance of CL&P.

Is this guy serious? Has he ever even been around an electrical explosion? (I have) Or even a hand grenade (I have) or a bomb (I have)?

THe forces generated by the explosive power of a high-voltage/current arc can rival the power of a hand grenade or even some bombs.

And an arc contains massive amounts of heat energy, absent in most hand grenades and/or bombs.

Maybe I'm taking his statement the wrong way, but it comes off as if he's trying to downplay the magnitude of what happened.

Just ask the lineworkers involved.... [Linked Image]

I hope the young woman and her co-workers recover from this incident.

Stupid should be painful.