Explosion injures 3 in Griffintown
An explosion overnight in Griffintown injured three people including two Hydro-Quebec workers. It’s not clear what caused the fire in an electrical panel that set off the explosion.
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Andrew Aitken 12:40 on 2021-01-23 Permalink
The explosion sounds like arc-flash, which can happen in high voltage panels with very little obvious cause. You just have to wear all the right PPE and hope it doesn’t happen. If it shattered doors and windows but didn’t kill them standing right next to it, it seems like they were.