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Submitted By -Raising Stiff Leg
About a year ago my pole partner, one of my best friends, decided to raise the "stiff legs" of the line truck. W/O telling anyone he started. The only problem was, the operator hadn't taken the boom off the pole yet causing the pole to be pushed till the wire broke, it came down, hit him and killed him. It laid on him for six minutes and burned. I pray to God the first "hit" was so fast he didn't know what hit him. Yesterday I had to experience it again when I was at a meeting and the incident came up as a topic of discussion. I think what I learned, even with doing this work 21 years, and Bruce with 26, sometimes you forget to communicate with everybody on the crew. I know he was thinking about getting married on Saturday and not the job at hand. Please everybody, be safe, I don't want anyone to have to go through something like this.