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Fatality on Wrangell-Tyee Transmission Line near Wrangell, Alaska. A worker was guiding a load of material near a 69kv line.The long line from the helicopter touched the energized circuit and the worker was killed. No official report has come out at this time. This was the second fatality in a month involving Whitewater Engineering Corporation. [Alaska Power and Telephone are joint venture partners with Whitewater Engineering Corporation.] http://www.olympus.net/apt/wattshappening/watts.html Brewski
Here is more information concerning a fatality posted in the accident archives. Ref: to Fatality 11 May 1999 http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=176309 This is the OSHA report on that fatality.