Author -
Submitted By -L. E. Myers Fatality
About a month ago L. E. Myers had a another employ killed .His name is Billy Booth. He did not know that the last day of the week was going to happen. His foreman told him to pull the chain hoist off a static line of a 161 line. THE LINE RAN ABOUT 15 MILES PARALLEL WITH A 500 AND THE FORMAN TOLD HIM HE DIDN'T NEED A GROUND ON IT, IT WAS DEAD. WHEN HE REACHED TO GET IT HE WAS ELECTROCUTED. THEY SAID THEY HAD IT GROUNDED but it wasn't .I worked with Billy for 3 months and he didn't know any better, no job is worth a life .my prayers go out to his 5 kids and wife he left behind. We will miss you brother and the chopper crew from Agrotors will see that something is done about this. Remember that going home at night is more important than dying for a job.