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some siding guys pushed a scafhold into a 27.6 Kv line. {.....} was also told that an automatic circuit breaker / automatic re-closer DID trip but tried to reset a couple of times as its designed to do and kept belting the 2 workers that were still in contact with the scaffhold and ground.

A similar thing happened in the village where I was living in the early/mid 1980s. Two idiots tried to balance on the top of a ladder in a tree and lift about 20 ft. of steel mast with 18 ft. of vertical antenna down in one piece, working above their heads. The whole lot went crashing down onto 11kV lines in the adjacent field. Apparently a breaker did trip, but then went through its automatic reclose routine two or three times before locking out.