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I nvnry rype of underground facxhty errsserossrng the area
ow a p | c a  a Mo.-. were yery old, sarae  very deep and others were
drreeuy under rhe a1dcwalk.s."
wo  c a n   on a scene as eompheaued and as lung-tenn as Lhns, une
loeare requesr bcfum wurk bcgin~ rsn'r enough to keep
I everybody sate.
4 ”Mull|pln 1oeare. were bcmg eaned rn, so uuhue. lmd
" roearors wsmng the area at teas: every week to m['m~1\
mark or m-mark aner the lap ~uriacv: was rernoved," he
a‘ sard.
~ l * BYMr:melDavm:s
- smv Wmel Heavy enrthmovmg zquxpmcnl was ernpnoyed to reshape
, ‘ rhrs rnrerseeuon, and multiple layers of eonerere needed to
f _. he raek-harnrnered to he removed.
/ .
53 \ _ on Lhc day of Lhe accxdent, two workers were ]ack-
—- _. _ lmmmcnng eonerere rn a fairly deep hole when tragedy
‘ r »._- — s|ruck. They had no rdea that a naarar lmzaxd existed rusr a
» - K» -I\ fnw rnehes helaw rherr buors
1’ V - ‘ ”Tlu: workers ‘ack-hammzmd through a mncmle duct hank
' ‘ \ .  » mlo an 8,000-voh prrrnary clucmtal hne," he explrunnd.
wt; , ; A } 3- .3 re‘ "One was srgnmeanuy burned, are ulhcr escaped with less
JW * — ..»— senous rnrunes."
r r 3, . .- V
_ ‘ * I 4?: The errrerne hear gennratnd rn a hrghnrahage arc eauses the
_ 'A surroundrng arr to expand ~n qu1:klyLhanlcan resuh |n a
_.w ' V r krnd uicxplo~'1on,cs'pcc|allym confined arcr1~.VVItnes~‘no
" 1‘ reported that one of the workn:r~ was ohysreauy hluwn out
. r r V , of rhe hole when the are oeeurrea.
- wark s-rapped, InvI:~|Igr1lion~ bcgan and uawyers were
eaned rn
H the damage Prmnmn mumyl WC mmmmy mm uhrrnareny, the workers were unaware that they lmd been
flbaulLhe|n1Pur‘anC€ 0, Calling 8,, Mom you mg standing aver an cleclncr1lfr1E|l|tylhat}md bncn located,
mpcmng ymmg um and ,,,mk_,,g mm mm, at but «he marks were eoyered by eansrrueuun dm and
mm, .m,_ um um mmdm ‘ab im (an mm mm dusr and were no longer vmblc. Addmunally, seyerau
aeerdenr seenes rn rnrnures, cspeually when woxkmg araund W°rl<eaa had eel been lmmed regardms these mark~ and
h,gh_W,mgc C,mm,h,> so were unsarnrhar wnh rherr meaning and rrnnurranee.
' ms |mpnrauv2 that iommcn and work£r~ undersrand

Reeemly at the Arkansas 811 Damage Preventlon Sum-mt, the math and keep an eye out for rhese cziucal snrery

an elerme ~y~'|em damage prevenuon manager told the warnings on the rob sun 1: you don't see mazk~ where you
paruerpanr. that speeran eare should be taken around nlecmcal m am, my mm hmmr. rm norm. ,0“,

sysrerns, both buned and aerra1. S , Z

cenano

"Electucal ares ean pruduee some of Lhe hrghes: rernperarures ,

known to oeeur an Eaztlu,” he oaid ”T1my ean reaeh up to Damage Prevent-en rwleally fee-x~ea on what ~ hawenmg
35,000 degnw (Ffl],“,€“l,‘C“)’ “M1, H ‘h‘m_fl“d_fl_hfllf mm oenearh our reer. A great deal of our attnnuon rs focused
‘ht mmpmmm of am sum“ of the suns, ldownélbul |t 1a”aIway~' a good praehee to look up for

mzar s as we

Dunng the presenrauon, he desmhea two real-his ~m|atium

where rhar awesurne energy earne rn rhreer Contact wrrh l-oealmg ma_rl<~ are usually seen at gm-md level — on
wurkers re.-ulung In serrous rnrury 7 and even a death 7 that Mela and aldewalkar on lawn» and nghr»~«ei-way- We

ha hopes could ha ,,m,a...ad ,,, ma future by mm,,,,,,,,mm,n rarnrhanze ounehae. wnh rhuse mazk~ befum and dunng
and bmg NM), NM Dfym .u,mund,“gfi> eaeh rah, hurhazards, I:~'plcEmlly around nlccmcity, can

4 eorne at you urn any ang e.
seenano one
The pre.enrer's second seenano rs a srory about a seasoned

The more mmvlleated a Job I» the more the likelll-and for lotalor who saruy dxdnk lwc to reeounr hrs nncuumcr wnh
hazards rnereases. one cxamplv: he used ro ruusrrare Lha| 1“gl‘.vOl‘agc araC.,.c,.,,

cunccpl anyohed exlcnswc eonsrrueuan that took olaee rn H

a tomplnx s-1ane rnrerseeuun rn a mayor mclropnhlan area A tvp-eal aummer ~10-an tame through the area. ca-mag
that mcludzd hus lanes rn the mud|an,muIl|plctzr1if1t conlml mme; damage to overhead lme~ and scattered outage» he
srgnals, srgns facing rn au drreeuons and waxkway erussrngs. aal<l- A uhllty worker spotted damage to some vole~ and

a saggrng energized hne and callnd |n an ernergeney locale
"Thl~'1°l>mvolved Pull-ng up and remriaemg almost every request. A second reparr erew was on Lhcxr way to replace
snrraoe of the rnrerseehan/' Lhc prescntnr sara. ‘There was am damaged Para. ~
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