Thursday, November 16, 2006

Worker's quarters caught fire!

"Api! api!" shouted by canteen lady who spotted the fire at one of my worker's room. It turn out that the Main electrical distribution board (DB) caught fire & produce thick smoke. Luckily no casualties & major damage of property.

Burned DB board at the worker's room

During further investigation, found out the illegal 'tapping'/connections by the Indonesian labourer might be the main culprit with caused the DB to be overload. In fact, the electrical system is not properly grounded. To avoid futher damage, i had to stop all demolition works of main site office & divert it for major rewiring works for the quarters & mini site office. Had to put my hand dirty, educate & ensure that the worker on proper wiring job. Personally, i don't have any background of electrical works before. Big thank you to my site manager (Mr Beh) & electrical sub-con, who without fail guiding & pass down knowledge till i 'graduate' in electrical.

No comments: