A long metal rod being handled by three workers touched an overhead power line. Two of the workers died of electrocution and the third was severely injured. The fatality occurred when they were using a core sampling rig to drill into the earth. They were employed by an engineering company and were running tests for geothermal energy (heat energy from the earth's interior). They were working around a 22-foot (6.71-meter) guy wire on the rig. As they removed the sampling rod, it touched a 4,160-volt electrical power line. The worker handling the sampling rod and the worker handling the guy wire were […]