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Re: Dangers of high voltage lines,
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Posted by Gerald J. on February 23, 2007 at 07:46:27 from (67.0.97.209):
In Reply to: Re: Dangers of high voltage lines, posted by Billy NY on February 22, 2007 at 21:23:28:
Lines of any voltage don't meet the National Electrical Safety Code at 12 to 14 feet above the ground. Ask the utility to check the clearance and if they won't fix them send a letter to the state utilities board complaining about the low clearance. That WILL catch their attention. Lines with less than legal clearance kill too many people, especially farmers. Though moving an auger while its up has no safety for the clearance of any line. I've investigated many injuries and deaths, mostly in Iowa over the past 35 years from power line with inadequate clearances and from overly tall farm equipment not used wisely. Its hard to judge the clearances to lines and unsafe to measure with anything but a surveyor's transit or a known clean fiberglass pole made for the purpose used by a lineman wearing appropriate insulating gloves. That fellow missing both legs and an arm sounds like my first case testifying in court, by the name of Hysell. Happened in Sioux City, probably about 1973. Gerald J.
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