A worker was electrocuted when he made contact with a power line March 6, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina. Christopher Bradshaw, 32, of James Island, S.C., was aloft in an aerial lift when the incident occurred. Emergency crews found him unresponsive, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a live5news.com report.
A landscape employee was electrocuted when he came in contact with a live electrical wire while trimming trees March 4, 2023, in Southlake, Texas. The 46-year-old was wearing a harness and was suspended from a tree. Emergency personnel determined that the man was dead when they arrived, according to a Dallas Morning News report.
Two tree workers were killed while trimming trees near power lines February 24, 2023, in Graham, Texas. Mark Wyatt Blackwell, 65, and Roy Dean Voss, 65, both of Graham, were in the bucket of the lift when the incident occurred. Oncor Electric was called to turn off the power. Both men were pronounced dead at […]
A tree worker was injured by electric shock while working in an aerial-lift bucket February 13, 2023, in Oakland City, Indiana. The man was breathing when emergency personnel arrived. He was flown via medical helicopter to a hospital for treatment, according to an msn.com report.
A man was hospitalized in critical condition after he suffered an electric shock while trimming a tree at a house July 24, 2022, in unincorporated Tustin, California. Responding firefighters heard landscapers in a tree yelling for help after one of them contacted electrical wires. The men were holding a man who was unresponsive. The firefighters […]
