![]() The worker suffered burns to the face, neck, hands and forearms. Fined $50,000 for Health and Safety Violation (a worker was testing the voltage going into a fuse box in a maintenance building when an electrical flash occurred. UPDATE Charges filed against employer of electrocuted worker (worker was killed in November 2002 while installing guard rails - the 23-year-old Mio resident was operating a truck with a pile driver when he died - investigators determined that electricity arced between the boom and an overhead power line at the work site - company is charged with six counts of violating state worker-safety standards - prosecutors say the company was cited for a similar incident involving Green three months before the fatal accident) Worker survives 7200-volt shock (a cable worker escaped serious injury after touching a 7,200-volt power line with his head - the 28-year-old worker was pulling cable lines from a bucket truck when his head touched the line - the shock entered his head and went through his right thigh into the bucket - worker stayed conscious and was able to lower the bucket back to the ground) Utility worker electrocuted in Greenville County (worker, 43, was working on a pole when he touched a live wire and fell to the ground) Joseph (one construction worker was killed and another was seriously injured after metal poles they were moving at a house touched a low-hanging power line - worker, 20, died in the accident - he was pronounced dead at a hospital - worker, 23, was injured trying to help his co-worker - witnesses said the accident victims were at the side of the home disassembling metal scaffolding - the owners of two construction companies involved were later arrested for operating without a license)ĪRC FLASH Fires burn sheds in Davenport area worker suffers flash burns (an electrical contractor suffered burns to his face while working on a transformer - man received some second-degree flash burns when there was an arc in the electric power while he was working on the transformer) ![]() Gilmer schools close after worker dies (the sole maintenance man, 47, for the County Schools died while working on a broken heating and air conditioning unit - he was likely was electrocuted sometime in the afternoon)Ĭity water worker electrocuted in bucket (a man installing new city water wells was electrocuted by a power line - the victim died at the scene, and his name has not been released - the man was in a bucket lift when he apparently touched high-voltage electrical lines) Electrical Contractor Shocked (an electrical contractor suffered a shock and reportedly caught fire -vworker apparently touched a high-voltage line, but there's no information about just how powerful the shock was - investigators are on the scene)
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