High voltage line vs. logging truck

[Dr. Mod]

This was floating around the power industry today...

Story is the driver of the logging truck was throwing a cable over the logs on his truck to secure them, when he wound up hooking a 7200 volt high voltage line. At least he hooked the lower 7200 volt line that is underbuilt, below the even higher voltage transmission lines above.

In one of the photos, you can see the logs still smoldering.

Trucking firm is out of Tennessee

 

[HawkShot99]

Did he live?

 

[dragon12]

Jetson - you're fired!!!!

 

[J-Roc]

HOLY CRAP! WOW... That's a very sobering and sad story. I'd assume the driver didn't make it if he was hanging on to his wrapper?

 

[summitchaser]

Ouch.... really hope he made it.

 

[SAWYER]

wow, i don't think he made it

 

[Good to Go]

"Bob was a stable, well grounded family man"



How inappropriate. I apologize in advance.


"Bob's death was untimely, as he had just given up smoking...."


Sorry, I can't stop.


"Bob could light up a room...", " was well known for catching the hot, lively ones...", "was a dead ringer for.."

 

[mattymac]

man that guy had an arm on him! he threw that hook pretty high!

 

[Snorider]

thats because he had such a strong arm it was shocking

sorry about that lol

 

[Q-BALL]

Heck of a place to park an tie down,hope he let go when he saw where it was headed. spent 35 yrs. of my life in power houses,came around a corner one time on shift to see the maint. foreman reaching into a 2400v mcc panel to pull the fuses for a piece of equip. using a stick with a loop of wire on it.told him we have hotsticks for such things and to let the electrician do it as it was his job- the guy told me"stand aside sonny boy,i got lot's o experience". blew his elbows,knees out and blew a foot off,ironically his nickname at work was "blackie" he did survive

 

[redlineguy]

Shocking story

 

[ruffryder]

Heck of a place to park an tie down,hope he let go when he saw where it was headed. spent 35 yrs. of my life in power houses,came around a corner one time on shift to see the maint. foreman reaching into a 2400v mcc panel to pull the fuses for a piece of equip. using a stick with a loop of wire on it.told him we have hotsticks for such things and to let the electrician do it as it was his job- the guy told me"stand aside sonny boy,i got lot's o experience". blew his elbows,knees out and blew a foot off,ironically his nickname at work was "blackie" he did survive

Everyone is worried about the high voltage stuff, but the lower voltage is much more deadly.... it is amazing what electric burns can do to a body. Sad stuff, especially when you hear crews complaining of all the ppe that they have to wear......

 

[Ollie]

I used to do road construction.
I was working traffic control during a paving operation.
We had a long box dump back up to the paving machine and they started moving.
No one bothered to look up.
The 40' aluminum box hit the first power line and pushed it into the second power line.
It blew out all 18 tires, blew a hole across the entire front of the box about 2' wide.
Luckily the driver saw what was coming and jumped. 3 of the guys on the paving machine were blown off the machine and suffered only minor burns.

That was one hellofan explosion.

 

[hoss]

We had that sent around to our mill here. It said the driver wasn't hurt but he felt very lucky to be alive. Someone must of been looking out for him that day.

 

[Gimpster]

That's one way to check your shorts

He's lucky

----- Gimpster -----

 

[mattymac]

We had that sent around to our mill here. It said the driver wasn't hurt but he felt very lucky to be alive. Someone must of been looking out for him that day.

or just simply



no brain no headache!

 

[Ollie]

I bet it is a LONG time before he ever just throws a chain over again.

 

[ouch]

$$$$$$$$ Ouch!! bad day at work.

 

[J-Roc]

WOW! Someone was watching over him that day! LUUUUCKY!

 

[94fordguy]

Used Logging truck for sale:

Needs new tires and a windshield, but otherwise,


THIS TRUCK IS HOT!!!