At round 10 a.m., the technician (53) from the Urfahr-Umgebung district and his colleague have been engaged on an influence pole within the heart of Gramastetten when the accident occurred. Regardless of security precautions, the 53-year-old acquired caught within the energy circuit.
As he briefly sought visible contact along with his colleague on the bottom, it occurred: The technician by accident touched a reside conductor. His colleague acknowledged the seriousness of the scenario and instantly known as the emergency companies.
Neighbors seen the accident and got here to the colleague’s assist with a protracted ladder to deliver the injured technician safely from the mast to the bottom. This meant that the Gramastetten, Walding and Schweinbach volunteer hearth departments and the Linz skilled hearth division have been not wanted. They’d been alerted to rescue the person from the ability pole.
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Picture: TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / MARTIN SCHARINGER
Paramedics and the crew of the C10 rescue helicopter, which had in the meantime arrived, handled the injured man – he was flown to hospital for additional therapy.