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In fact, overhead power line contact accounts for 48% of all workplace electrical fatalities, 57% of electrical fatalities in non-electrical occupations, and 30% of all electrical fatalities that ...
An excavator, similar to the one shown, was involved in an accident where it touched or came close to overhead power lines. Working in a narrow, shallow trench laying water pipe one morning ...
More than 200 people lost power in the Iowa Quad Cities Monday evening after a truck hit an overhead line.
Every job has hazards, but overhead power lines are the most relentless—see why they make recovery so hard. Four machetes, ...
Twenty-six-year-old Kelly Winn of Salt Lake City died after a ramp guardrail from an aerial ski jump demonstration struck an overhead power line last night. Bismarck police Sergeant Steve Cysewski ...
“Overhead power line contacts are unique because in many cases the fatality occurred when the power line was clearly visible,” said Daniel Majano, ESFI’s Program Director.