14.10.2013

Boom lift electrocution

A man died yesterday on a site in Charlotte, North Carolina after he contacted overhead power lines from the platform of self-propelled boom lift he was using.

The man, a construction worker with contractor Adolphson and Peterson was working on new apartment block at the University of North Carolina campus and was around 10 metres up in a Genie S-60.
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The lift after the man was removed from the platform

The power company was called to shut the power off to allow fire fighters to rescue the stricken man with a mobile fire ladder. But he was declared dead at the scene.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is carrying out an investigation