and pose no danger. She should move back to wherever it is she came. I hope I can serve on her jury and reject any claim. Either (1) learn how to board (2) learn how to discern that steam = HOT, or (3)Go back to Wisconsin
Posted on 08/16/2004 3:45:42 PM PDT by swilhelm73
August 15, 2004 -- A 26-year-old skateboarder is scarred for life after she fell onto a red-hot Con Edison manhole cover — mere blocks from the scene of a tragic death earlier this year when a woman stepped onto an electrified Con Ed cover. Magazine receptionist and DJ Liz Wallenberg told The Post she was skating to see friends at an East Village club early Wednesday when she hit a bump in the road at 13th Street and Second Avenue.
"I landed with my arm and back straight onto the metal cover," Wallenberg said. "I noticed it was kind of hot, but I didn't realize how bad it was until my skin started to sizzle."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
26-year-old skateboarder?
Welcome to adulthood. First lesson: Gravity sucks.
....The accident occurred two blocks from where psychology student Jodie Lane died on Jan. 16. The 30-year-old woman was walking her two dogs when she stepped onto an electrified manhole cover and died instantly.
A mixture of melted snow and salt, which corroded electrical wires, was found to have caused Lane's death — which stunned New Yorkers and led to community outcry.....
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Catman.html
I understand decorative brands are the coming rage.
If you have to ask about the pain........you're not ready.
Unless I'm supposed to infer that as the cause.
and pose no danger. She should move back to wherever it is she came. I hope I can serve on her jury and reject any claim. Either (1) learn how to board (2) learn how to discern that steam = HOT, or (3)Go back to Wisconsin
My guess is that this manhole was for either a transformer vault or a network protector vault, which contain several transformers. If a transformer failed catastrophically, the heat in the vault would be intense. I've seen cases where shadows and footprints from a "too close" worker were seared (yeah, SEARED) into the concrete in substations after an arc flash event. Temperatures have been estimated in the tens of thousands degree Fahrenheit.
From the body of the whole article, and about an earlier death:
A mixture of melted snow and salt, which corroded electrical wires, was found to have caused Lane's death —
That 'Lektrizity does some ca-razee things. Add water and metal manhole covers and you'll literally be dancin' in the streets.
I was an apprentice for an electrician when I was a kid, and saw something simple yet surprising - a screw was loose in a fusebox and it (and a couple of inches of the end of the wire it was supposed to be tightened on) was glowing like the end of a cigarette. All electrical connections should be tight.
I'm not saying ConEd is responsible, not knowing any more than what the article says, but it's conceivable someone can get burned on one of those covers if there's electrical leakage somewhere.
Those are cans of chewing tobacco. He really needs to wipe the juice stains off his face,
It seems somewhat appropriate that she have "sewer" tattooed across her butt, albeit her gangbanger buds will have to admire it by gazing into a rather large mirror and one without a brewery logo largely etched upon it.
Can't be Brown's Mule, it's square.
After hotfooting it around on the pavement a bit, the whole family had to be treated at the hospital for their foot burns. (and since everything was burned up in the van, I remember reading that the CHP guys bought 'em all some shoes)
I did read the whole article but nowhere does it state that the cause of the burn was corroded electrical wires; it only states that there have been problems with manhole covers and cites a different accident in which corroded wires were the cause.
If she would have pulled up her pants like a normal person, this wouldn't have happened.
There, now it's accurate;-D
You "guarantee?"
Like the woman who was electrocuted by a ConEd cover last year?
If she faked this, then she should be nailed to the wall. But ConEd's track record is hardly clean. If ConEd screwed up again, and somebody got hurt because they didn't do enough checks or follow safety procedures, then I hope she does sue them.
I'm all for waiting until the facts are in before we judge.
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