Monday, September 24, 2007
Weekend work shocks 3
THREE workers found themselves victims of electrical accidents in two separate incidents Saturday.
In Medellin town, a lineman who was working on the connections of a house accidentally propped a steel bar against the secondary line of the Cebu Electric Cooperative II.
Junilo Zapanta, 29, was working on the house of Cecil Alas in Sitio Tawagan, Poblacion, Medellin at 3:30 p.m.
When the steel bar touched the wire, electric shocks surged through him. While he was shaking, he fell from the roof of the house about 14 feet high.
Zapanta was taken to the Bogo-Medellin Medical Center.
In Lapu-Lapu City, two construction workers who were installing aluminum frames on a building along the highway of Barangay Pusok suffered electric shocks when an aluminum bar touched the main line of the Mactan Electric Company.
Bernadin Almirante Placer, 33, and Roger Fernandez, 38, are employees of Willstrong Aluminum Composite Panel Works.
The two were installing the frames for a building when the aluminum bar touched the main line of the power post at 11:30 a.m. The line reportedly had no plastic covering.
The Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation brought the two men to the Mandaue City General Hospital.
A report submitted by the Lapu-Lapu City Police Station stated that investigators of the station will conduct a follow-up investigation to determine the liability of the owners and management of the electric company. (MEA)
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