by gski452001
Hello, everyone. I'm a new member to this great site, and I have a question for the pros out there.
I'm an electrician for a Class I. The other day, a co-worker and I were cutting apart a consist of three engines. The leader was a GE EVO, the middle unit was an EMD SD-70MAC, and the trail was a GE -9 Wide Body. When I was separating the Main Reservoir line between the first and second units, I experienced a pretty violent kick at the glad hands.
I of course cut out the angle cocks on both units prior to separating the glad hands, and I know I heard the air vent off. My co-worked witnessed this and later told me that he had experienced this in the past as well.
I blew the incident off, but now I'm wondering if I should have said something to our supervisor.
Has anybody out there experienced this in the past? If so, was a cause ever discovered? There was no damage done, but if my head/face was in the wrong spot, I could have become even uglier....
Thank you very much!
I'm an electrician for a Class I. The other day, a co-worker and I were cutting apart a consist of three engines. The leader was a GE EVO, the middle unit was an EMD SD-70MAC, and the trail was a GE -9 Wide Body. When I was separating the Main Reservoir line between the first and second units, I experienced a pretty violent kick at the glad hands.
I of course cut out the angle cocks on both units prior to separating the glad hands, and I know I heard the air vent off. My co-worked witnessed this and later told me that he had experienced this in the past as well.
I blew the incident off, but now I'm wondering if I should have said something to our supervisor.
Has anybody out there experienced this in the past? If so, was a cause ever discovered? There was no damage done, but if my head/face was in the wrong spot, I could have become even uglier....
Thank you very much!