Worker Electrocuted While Repaving Highway A 44-year-old transportation worker died after being jolted with 7,200 volts of electricity while repaving a highway in Colorado. Rodger Bell was working on the back of an asphalt spreader, or lay-down machine, when he was jolted with electricity. It was reported that a truck dumping asphalt into the spreader came into contact with an overhead power line. Apparently the truck shifted when the load emptied out, and the raised dump bed moved forward to touch the wire. There was no negligence on the part of the driver, reported state trooper Josh Boden. The power traveling through the truck […]
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