Extremely Dangerous Job Changing High Voltage Cable Isolator

I don't know all of the details of the accident. I had the same thoughts you have. The guy who told me about the accident also said that the guys who do this work must be available 24/7 without notice. They get a call they go. No well wait a few hours and let me mow the grass. I meet an retired lineman whose legs were ruined by climbing poles in the old days. I think he got paid well and a good pension because he just bought a larger $109,000 RV.

I find it very hard to believe somebody could even survive a 250kV jolt with associated current. Odd also how the bucket was not on an insulated boom?

Nevertheless, this goes to show how very dangerous this job is, I'll pass thank you :-)

An electrician told me a story about a guy who was working on high voltage lines but he was in a bucket truck. The wind swung the bucket into the 250,000 volt lines. When the guy was taken down his skin had turned blue. They said that the electricity boiled his blood. It took a year before he was well enough to work but even then he wasn't the same.

Man he must of gotten a S**t ton of money to do this

damn, that is very high