Worker's Second Shock Proves Deadly A young worker who had been hospitalized for electric shock in a similar incident just three months earlier died when the machine he was operating came in contact with a 14,000-volt power line. The 23-year-old victim was working for a company that installed highway guardrails when the incident occurred. His job was to operate a hydraulically powered guardrail post pounder mounted on a stake truck and to use control levers located at the operator station on the outside of the truck to extend the steel boom and pound posts into place. At the time of the incident the […]
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