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Tower Worker Seriously Injured from Electrical Shock!

While working for Surf Air Wireless, John Richardson, 24 years old, from Michigan City touched some electrical wires while on the tower. He had to be airlifted to Memorial Hospital. There was a worker on the ground who called it in. They say there was a bright flash when he touched the lines. he is very lucky to be alive, but he is in serious condition!

When emergency workers got there he was hanging limp and seriously burned. He did NOT fall, his harness held him in place. Apparently he touched the wires and they rendered him unconscious. Hi coworker called 911 immediately. With electrical wires nearby it would have been very dangerous to go near him.

No idea how that happened.  He was doing a broadband deployment near New Carlisle, In.

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http://m.southbendtribune.com/news/publicsafety/worker-seriously-injured-while-working-on-wireless-tower/article_193a6668-fd4a-591c-94c5-5beb56f5ec42.html?mode=jqm

http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/Man-shocked-taken-in-ambulance-from-St-Joseph-County-neighborhood-328916901.html

http://www.wkow.com/story/30103174/2015/09/23/man-shocked-while-working-on-chicago-trail-tower-in-st-joseph-county

http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/man-shocked-while-working-on-power-line-in-st-joseph-county/35448372

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Climber Shocked 130 foot up on Tower!

I heard on Friday that a man who was working 130 foot up on a tower in Coopersville, Michigan, was shocked up on the tower. According to Ottawa County Sheriff a 22-year-old Lansing man, Eric Davis, with his crew was working on the tower when the wind blew his measuring tape into a high tension wire. His workmates helped him down and an ambulance treated him on the scene. Then they took him to a Hospital in Grand Rapids for farther treatment, mostly burns on his arms.

I am guessing he was doing either a survey or structural study.

If anyone has more information please let me know.

http://fox17online.com/2014/10/17/worker-shocked-in-coopersville-tower-accident/

http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/local/coopersville/2014/10/17/report-man-shocked-trapped-on-130-ft-coopersville-tower/17440315/

http://www.wwmt.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Electrical-worker-shocked-on-the-job-in-Ottawa-Co-51546.shtml#.VELS0xZMe2c

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/10/man_22_burned_in_high-tension.html

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/article/20141017/NEWS/141019071/12545/NEWS

 

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