Wausau Man Electrocuted, In Critical Condition

WFRV.COM ^ | 20 AUGUST 2006 | AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

IB4TZ?

[stm]

There are billboards all around our town proclaiming: "One word about touching power lines....DON'T"

Electricity scares me more than bullets.

[Tamar1973]

LIke this one?

[USNBandit]

Do you think he will still get fined by the power company?

[abigailsmybaby]

If you're gonna work it hot it's good to remember the rubber gloves.

[NonValueAdded]

Sounds like the zot already occurred. You are IATZ. The good news is that he apparently failed to direct 14,400 volts into his home.

[Crim]

What are the odds that this guy wasnt a Union electrician?

*snicker*

[Blood of Tyrants]

"IB4TZ?"

Not unless you posted this before he zotted himself.

[Professional Engineer]

The company's engineers are investigating.

There's nothing to investigate. Looks like the editor forgot to delete a standard bullet statement from the press release template.

[MineralMan]

Uffda! I guess this guy wasn't an electrician, then? It's not really all that hard to hook up a residential service. It's just a good thing he didn't get that HV line connected to the house, or there wouldn't be a house.

[Junior]

I grew up believing that "electrocuted" meant one had died, and therefore could not be in "critical condition." Perhaps the author meant "sever electrical shock."

[headstamp]

Sounds like a "Cut at the pole" disconnect for non payment. Most likely for not allowing access to the property to disconnect at the meter.

Idiot tried to reconnect at the tub.

[Crawdad]

It's like saying one was executed, but is in critical condition.

[Malsua]

If you're gonna work it hot it's good to remember the rubber gloves.

If you watch how electrical service guys deal with hot lines, it's rubber sleeves up to the shoulder and wood stick with hook on it. That's how they close those pole breakers.

[Publius6961]

I work at a site where high voltage is a common fact of life. It has an awesome collection of engineers and technical workers with hundreds of years of collective experience. We're talking really high voltage here, down to "ordinary voltages" of 400-600V.

One of the ongoing highlights of constant training is total respect for any voltage.
Even "ordinary" voltages in a panel box can deliver transformer voltage and current in the thousands... The resulting "explosion" vaporizes metal.

Forget "rubber" gloves. Gloves and other tools and equipment for working on electrical equipment come in a bewildering array of "classes", and have expiration dates.

Any inexperienced person working on anything beyond household voltages is a ready-made "Darwin Award" candidate.

[headstamp]

I would bet he was trying to reconnect the house service leads back to the Transformer low side taps (220 volts) However, those high side taps (4800 to 14,200 volts) are right nearby on the tub (usually on top vs low side taps on the side) and consequently he was blasted by them.

Extremely lucky that he fell clear when contact was made. He would have looked like a burned chicken leg dangling up there if he didn't.

[JOHANNES801]

Hey hold my beer and watch this.

[em2vn]

If a person is electrocuted they are dead. It's not something that is survived.

[Oztrich Boy]

Wausau Man Electrocuted, In Critical Condition

I'd be miffed too.

[umgud]

This man will sue and probably win.