Northland power outage - Inexperienced workers removed too many nuts on pylon

A report into the massive Northland has outage found there was insufficient supervision during the work.

Told you !!!!

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I’m staggered that anyone, even without formal training,would think removing the bolts from more than one leg at a time is the way.

When I first posted about this , it was more of a "this can’t be true" suggestion, but no, it was real.

Someone’s head needs to roll over this imo.
- Transpower's busy throwing their contractor under the ~~pylon~~ bus.
  
  Despite them contracting to (probably) the lowest bidder and then not actually supervising said contractors.
  
  Start with TP's CEO (they're accountable) and whomever down the chain is responsible.
- We really heard it here first!
  
  Mentioning your suggestion to a couple of people made me look like someone "in the know" when the headline came out ha ha.
  
  Ha, ha, glad my supposition made you an "expert" 😀😀👍👍
They mention "inexperienced" workers, but this sounds more like a training issue than anything else. It can't be hard to explain to someone "don't unbolt more than one leg at a time", can it?
- Sounds like some major organization needs to lose a service or maintenance contract
- You would be amazed how many people don't fully listen to and internalise an instruction like that.

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