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Action Taken Against Workers After Fatal Electrocution
California City :: CA :: USA | 23 days ago
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Media release 3 May 2013 Disciplinary Action Taken Against Electrical Workers After Fatal Electrocution An Auckland electrician and electrical inspector have been found guilty of negligence and creating a risk of serious harm after a home
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Davie man accused of copper theft from ex-employer
Pompano Beach :: FL :: USA | 25 days ago
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Roustan, Sun Sentinel A 52-year-old Davie man is behind bars following a Monday arrest in a copper theft case and the victim helped catch him, police said. Henry Lincoln Richardson is charged with burglary, grand theft, assault, battery and several
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Kenya: Lightning Kills - Six Tips to Avoid Getting Hurt
Cape Town :: South Africa | 27 days ago
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Did you know that an estimated 24,000 people are killed by lightning strikes around the world each year and about 240,000 are injured? Because being struck by lightning is often used as a metaphor for something very rare, but fact of the matter is
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Copper wiring theft causes $150,000 damage to Westar substation on Rock Road
Kansas City :: KS :: USA | 27 days ago
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A Westar Energy employee checking on a power outage early Saturday discovered that someone had stolen copper wiring and grounding straps and caused about $150,000 in damage to a substation at 2360 S...The employee also found a pile of copper wiring
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Suggestion For Our Beloved Governor Kasich
how's it going gov? before you go to cook your wife's dinner and get the snackies out for the guys to eat while watching big Super Bowl 47 tomorrow here's a suggestion to get your mental powers working to bring back our super
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Perform Marina & Dock Electrical Grounding Inspections with Extech's New CT70 AC Circuit Load Tester
Nashua :: NH :: USA | 4 months ago
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In a marina environment, electrical workers are faced with a worst-case scenario of rapidly growing AC electrical demands supported by an infrastructure that has largely been cobbled together to accommodate this relatively new demand for all the
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Could your airplane be shot out of the air by lightning strikes?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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This picture is undeniably cool, but not what most people want to see from their window as they fly during the holiday season. Lightning is scary for the passengers, but it's no big deal for the plane. There hasn't been a plane downed by lightning
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Thief nabs copper cell wiring
South Lake Tahoe :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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An unknown thief has made off with about $500 in copper grounding wire from the Verizon cell phone tower on Boulder Court, according to a Douglas County Sheriff's deputy's report. On Nov. 13, a technician working at the site noticed many of the
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Click & Clack Talk Cars: Jump-start takes out car radio
Monterey :: TN :: USA | 7 months ago
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Font Resize Click & Clack Talk Cars Dear Tom and Ray: So, a co-worker needed a jump-start after leaving her lights on, and I thought I would be a good Samaritan and help her after work. Her car was parked on a busy road, and I had to pull up next to
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Wire thieves creep through Idaho, Washington state
Spokane :: WA :: USA | 8 months ago
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Thieves in northern Idaho and eastern Washington state are still targeting copper wire for the scrap market despite lower metal prices and electrocution risks, power company officials say. Officials tell The Spokesman-Review ( http://bit.ly/PiGOr6 )
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