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Electrical burns 20.04.2006

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A railway track maintenance worker aged 24 received electrical burns while loosening nuts on track adjacent to a live 650-volt conductor rail. The rail maintenance company had failed to provide him with an insulated running spanner, or an insulating trough (used to cover an electrified section of track close to where someone is working). This was a potentially fatal accident. If he had been given the correct information and insulated equipment to work with, he would not have been hurt.

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