Posted on 02/09/2004 8:54:12 AM PST by chance33_98
Man Electrocuted Removing Snow
Worker touches electrical line atop Lincoln house
A 27-year-old man died Saturday after coming in contact with an electrical line while trying to clear snow off the roof of a sorority house on the UNL campus.
Police said Enrique Conteras was working out of a basket lift above the Kappa-Kappa Gamma Sorority House when he touched a 12,000 volt electrical line. A co-worker called 911. Conteras was taken to the hospital where he later died. Police said he may have thought it was a phone line and was trying to move it out of the way.
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