18.04.2016
Catapulted from the platform
A man was seriously injured last Thursday in Forest Park, Illinois when a utility pole struck the platform he was working from and bounced him out of the bucket.
The man was working for ComEd installing larger new steel poles, when the crane/boom truck lifting it dropped the load. The new pole fall onto the power lines - which were still live - pulling them and one of the old wooden poles over. One or both struck the edge of the platform catapulting the man out of the fibreglass bucket at a height of between nine and 10 metres.
One assumes that he was not wearing a harness with lanyard attached.
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The scene shortly after the incident occured
Sherm
Doggone it all! I thought the people at ConEd were intelligent and well trained to require all safety devices to be used at all times. If he lives through the injury and recuperation that chap might never let his feet leave the ground again. Good skilled workers are so hard to find especially those that take and follow orders as well as those in leadership who are responsible for seeing that standards are recognized met and employed. This kind of accident can put a lot of us up on a soapbox to preach safety issues at the top of our lungs.