Workers often get into trouble by failing to look up when moving metal ladders, poles and other objects. If such objects touch live overhead power lines, workers are probably dead before they realize what they've done. However, a recent fatality at a condominium construction site in Lowell, MA, shows that electrical hazards can lie beneath as well. Worker Marcos Landaverde, 22, was standing on a scaffold while he installed siding about 20 feet (six meters) above the ground. An aluminum beam that was supporting one end of the scaffolding suddenly collapsed and touched a 7600-volt power line below. Landaverde, who received a […]
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