Utility worker electrocuted working on Denton powerline

[Papa B]

A Waxahachie utility worker was electrocuted Monday afternoon while working to replace a power pole in a Double Oak neighborhood in Denton County.
Jacob Lee Willis, 32, was working on a power pole replacement crew with the Southern Electric Corp. at about 12:12 p.m. in the 100 block of Meadow Knoll Road when an energized power cable touched a hydraulic lift he was working and struck him with a large amount of electricity, according to a Double Oak Police Department news release.
He was given CPR at the scene, the release stated.
Willis was taken to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Flower Mound, where he later died, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office.

[love Lantana]

sad, don't those guys wear protection? things that inhibit the flow of electricity?

[JKTex]

You don't inhibit that kind if flow, you avoid it.

They usually have 2 guys minimum with one focused just on the lift. It's bad enough to die doing a job, it's horrible to die by electrocution like that. I feel for his family.

[Common Sense Al]

Yes, very sad... and only 32 years old.

[neighbor]

You don't inhibit that kind if flow, you avoid it.

No kidding. As kids, a couple of us were climbing a tree when our weight moved the branches at the top onto power lines a good 15-20 feet above us. There is so much power in those lines, that only the moisture in the wood was enough to transmit enough juice to knock us off the tree. Talk about learning respect.