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Edgefield town worker pulled from truck by
low hanging cable lines Edgefielddaily.com web posted August 17, 2005 EDGEFIELD - An unidentified Edgefield Town Sanitation worker was injured Tuesday when a low hanging cable TV line snared him by the neck and threw him from the sanitation truck he was riding. “He received a friction burn on his neck that peeled back the skin,” Edgefield Police Chief Ron Carter said. “It sounded bad when the call first went out,” as an electrocution Chief Carter said. It turned out not to be an encounter with a power line but rather a low hanging cable TV line. As the truck rounded the corner of Wigfall and Timmerman Street the wire caught the worker by the neck pulling him from the truck. Urgent calls from workers over radio transmissions stated the injured man was “bleeding from the neck,” and a power line down on the road. Once the scene and the man were evaluated the seriousness of the call was downgraded. The injured worker was transported by another truck to the hospital for treatment of the friction burn and cuts. “He’s OK,” Edgefield Chief of Police Ron Carter said, “he’ll probably miss a few days of work, but other than that he’ll be fine.” The cable company was summoned to repair the line and other sanitation workers continued their scheduled rounds. “We were glad it turned out to be something other than what the initial call went out as,” Chief Carter said.
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