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High-Voltage Power Line Work Is A Peril

Publication Date: 23-FEB-04
Author: Jonathan Barnes and Richard Korman with Tudor Hampton
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One day last August, a 22-year-old apprentice lineman named Matthew Walker Johnson went to work near Frisco, Texas, not far from Dallas. He had been a lineman for two years and loved the job. This day, he was part of a four-man crew sent to repair a line belonging to another utility that accidentally had been cut the day before. In the afternoon, Johnson climbed a pole to move a pulley that ...
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