Gotta wonder if he got into primary or secondary voltage. And if primary why was it so close to a tower. If secondary must have been one of those fluke where 120 or 240 stops someone’s heart.
I was up a tower at about the 200 foot level to change a bulb once. The red glass cover gasket was stuck to the diecast aluminum base. I was bumping the top of the lens with the heel of my palm trying to break the gasket loose without the lens hitting the bulb. I failed. Broke the bulb. OK, now, how to extract the base of the bulb from the socket. I know, I will use my trusty leatherman tool. Crammed into the base of the bulb and started to get zapped pretty good. Seems the electrician had wired up the photocell to the neutral. And had made the threaded part of the bulb socket hot to boot. I didn’t drop the leatherman. The guy on the ground heard me yell. We got the power cut, the bulb changed and down I came. One other towertop shock I got was from an old all metal electric drill. It was so old they didn’t have a 3 wire line cord. Something inside the drill had touched the hot wire and energized the housing. But only after you pulled the trigger. Didn’t drop the drill either. My experience - so far – has been that 120 VAC makes you cuss but does not kill you. From: Jeff Broadwick - Lists Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 6:17 AM To: Wispa Members List ; Animal Farm List Subject: [AFMUG] Tower Worker Critically Injured I'm sure prayers and thoughts will be greatly appreciated. http://m.southbendtribune.com/news/publicsafety/worker-seriously-injured-while-working-on-wireless-tower/article_193a6668-fd4a-591c-94c5-5beb56f5ec42.html?mode=jqm Jeff Broadwick ConVergence Technologies, Inc. 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@converge-tech.com
