Innacurate title. The switch didn't fail, it was done on purpose.

Is this real or doctored?

real, but the first poster is right. They did it on purpose.

Seeing that in REAL would be cool.

There's a very full explanation of this video at the following link. Basically it was a test, the isolator was supposed to be opened off load and they were testing it, one of the circuit breakers had failed and that is the result.

http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm

Similar disconnect and a power transformer exploding here:

http://videosift.com/story.php?id=3036
http://videosift.com/story.php?id=3035

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