Electric shock: scaffolding and overhead power lines should not mix.(IN COURT)(Brief article)

Publication: The Safety & Health Practitioner

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Two men received electrical burns when a scaffolding pole they were holding touched overhead power lines.

Llangefni magistrates heard on 3 May that David Bohana, who trades as Celtic Scaffolding, of Caernarfon, north Wales, and his sole employee, John Macdonald, had been erecting scaffolding at a new-build house on...

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