Full recovery expected for worker (suffered an electric shock from power line)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20091020/NEWS01/710209934

By Jason Kuiper
World-Herald Staff Writer
« Metro/Region

A construction worker who suffered an electric shock last week when the pole he was using hit a power line said he expects to fully recover.

William Miller, who goes by the name Jeremy, has a quarter-size hole in his right hand where the bolt of electricity entered his body and a nickel-size hole in the left-foot toe where it exited, he told reporters Monday at the Nebraska Medical Center.

Miller said he had been told that 7,900 volts passed through him.

He thanked co-workers and doctors who assisted him after the Friday afternoon incident at a job site near 102nd and J Streets. Miller, who works for Daedalus Construction, was flown to the hospital in critical condition.

Miller, 35, said he remembers nothing of the accident. His last memory before he awoke Saturday in the hospital was of being at work on Thursday.

He called the incident a fluke. He was smoothing concrete with a 30-foot aluminum pole outside Consolidated Kitchens and Fireplaces. Power lines hanging over the construction site were about the same height, and Miller’s pole touched a power line.

FULL story at link.

[Craftsman]

1. I once worked in the oil refineries, we had an electrician get zapped

by 480 volts. When he returned to work his new nick name was Sparky.