Why tf arenāt they bolted down?
Like this one a car crashed into 1000097930
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Glitterbomb@lemmy.world āØ8ā© āØmonthsā© agoThe door locks, sure, and the entire thing is a good 200lbs+, but itās often still just resting on top of the concrete pad. Kids probably canāt push it but an adult can probably hip check it an inch at a time.
Maybe a rider lawnmower bumps it and moves it 3 inches and now thereās a crevice between the concrete pad and the transformer that kids can reach into and grab high voltage power lines.
They ARE fairly safe, a lot of things have to go wrong, but bottom line itās still something that will kill.
Iāve worked around them, and I never shooed or chastised any kids I saw playing on them. Iād just do a quick inspection with them, point out that itās not crooked or bent or anything so they know what to look out for. Iād really prefer they didnāt play on it, but I get it
Zwiebel@feddit.org āØ8ā© āØmonthsā© ago
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world āØ8ā© āØmonthsā© ago
I couldnāt really tell you why, just that they arenāt typically bolted down.
Also, thatās a telecom crossbox in your photo. Hereās some lawn mowing site warning about the risk of hitting them and moving them:
marcos@lemmy.world āØ8ā© āØmonthsā© ago
Well. Are they grounded? Because they look like any loose wire or even induction could make the stuff on the photo lethal. Not something common, but pretty clearly one single point of failure.
If they are grounded, it would also not be viable for an adult to push it around.
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world āØ8ā© āØmonthsā© ago
Iām just spitballing here, I have no clue, but they have a bunch of (used to be pretty toxic) oil inside these and maybe during any sudden impact, making it scoot a little is preferable to the thing busting open and spilling everywhere? Sort of like the telecom cabinet in the other photo that was secured to the ground and shattered when it was hit