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RANDOLPH RD, DETROIT LAKES, MN 56501
Standard 19260550 A15 I
Initial $5,400
Standard 19260021 B02
Initial $425
Standard 19260550 B02
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
A two-person crew was delivering construction materials to a jobsite in a Ford f latbed truck equipped with an ITM hydraulic boom. The employees were moving from one place to another at the site, but they had not properly lowered the boom. T he partially elevated boom contacted a 40-kilovolt phase-to-phase (25-kilovolt p hase-to-ground) overhead power line. The driver left the cab of the truck. He wa s holding onto a metal ladder secured to the side of the truck as his foot hit t he ground, and he was electrocuted.
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