On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:52:50 +0100, The Wanderer
wrote:

On 04 Jun 2006 08:59:20 GMT, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

I once had to attend a similar fatality, a glorious sunny August bank
holiday Sunday a good few years ago. Couple of guys were moving equipment
at a grain silo, straight into an 11kv o/h line. The worst part was the
guys had brought their families along for a day out.....


A true story from the BBC.

One day in the mid '60s a mobile microwave link was being set up on
top of a remote hill. The gang, as always, went out in plenty of time
and having had no difficulty in proving the link took the mast back
down and went to the pub in the van. After lunch they went back to the
site and found a very heavy mist had come down, anyway they parked the
vehicle and the apprentice amongst them elevated the mast by standing
alongside the van and operating a lever that controlled the hydraulic
mast. The mast went up and came into contact with a High Voltage
overhead line hidden in the mist. The apprentice was killed instantly.

The van had been parked in a slightly different spot than before their
lunch.

DG