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2ND AVE N & 2ND ST N, ALLEY, WHEATON, MN 56296
Standard 19260600 A06
Standard 182065308
Standard 19260550 A15 I
Employee electrocuted when pole contacts power line
On July 2, 2002, Employee #1 was attempting to steady a secondary wooden joint-u se pole as it was being pulled out of the ground by the front bucket of a tracto r-backhoe. He was electrocuted when the pole contacted a 7,200-volt, single phas e, overhead power line.
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