Anyone who operates and maintains down hole hydrocarbon recovery pumps should carefully read and understand this near miss and take precautions to avoid such occurrences.

Please click here to read about a recent explosion in a vault related to wire chaffing with electric submersible pumps and a related explosion that tossed a concrete vault lid to be thrown from the vault.  If you have questions regarding installation of pumps with torque arresters or maintenance procedures to identify wire chafing, contact Dan Dowdy (805-477-9750, ddowdy@stratusinc.net).