ECN Forum Forums Safety Discussion and News Occupational Safety Discussion What to think of this?

Paul,
Let's put it this way, I'm looking at the whole case rather dubiously, considering that the guy lived through it, it sounds like a legal challenge to his employers, what do you folk in the US reckon?.
If I was a presiding judge in this this case I would want REAL pictures of the offending wire and also the report from the EMS team that responded and any PoCo Crew man that responded and also the police report that was filed by the officer(s) sent to the scene by the EMS team.
Until then, there is no case!.

Paul, actually that was what I meant too, only didn't word it very well. (I couldn't write a novel )

I would think that what they are referring to as a Fiber Optic line was indeed a voltage caring conductor.

It would be a far shot that with the designed separation a fiber could become energized, (not impossible but unlikely) hence the reason I think it was misidentified.

But now you've got me wondering, was he just shocked with a decent static charge or was he "electrocuted"?

Roger

Trumpy (et all) check out January's issue of Electrical Contractor. A Mr. Joe O'Connor details acccident investigations/reports there (pg 57)

at the artilces end, Mr. O'Connor claims he can e-mail report samples via~

joconnor@intecweb.com


~S~

I would think it would be pretty unusual for a fiber-optic line to be overhead anyways.

All of them I've ever seen were underground.

Russell