Worker Installing an Electrical Cable Hit by 14,400 Volts
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ARLINGTON, Tex. — Getting zapped with 14,400 volts was enough to set his clothes on fire, but John Mays says about all he remembers “was one big flash.”
Co-workers put out the flames Tuesday, but the shock to his muscles kept the construction worker from letting go of an electrical transformer he had been working on.
“That’s when I came to. I told the guys to get some help. . . . I was stuck there for a while,” Mays, 47, said from Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He was listed in fair condition Wednesday, suffering mostly second-degree burns over 15% of his body.
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