[Kcdxc] Fw: [TowerTalk] CNN reports-Three die in fall from cell tower

Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:44:50 -0600

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From: "krishna" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [TowerTalk] CNN reports-Three die in fall from cell tower


> 
> FORREST CITY, Arkansas (AP) -- Three men replacing guy wires on a
>                  cellular telephone tower in Forrest City, Arkansas,
> plunged 100 feet to their
>                  deaths after a rope used to hoist them to the top of
> the structure broke.
> 
>                  The men, part of a four-person crew, were killed
> Wednesday afternoon, Sheriff's
>                  investigator Glenn Ramsey said.
> 
>                  The crew worked for Allstate Construction Co. of
> Wagoner, Oklahoma, and was
>                  replacing the guy wires on a 250-foot tower owned by
> Alltel Corp.
> 
>                  The dead were identified as Brian Barnes, 23, and John
> Seabolt, 26, both of
>                  Muskogee, Oklahoma; and Jamie Anders, 27, of
> Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
> 
>                  Ramsey said he was told the rope hoisting the men up
> the tower was tied to the
>                  front of a pickup truck driven by the crew's foreman,
> who backed up, lifting the
>                  men into the air. The foreman, identified as Barnes'
> uncle, Forest Barnes, 50, of
>                  Muskogee, was not injured.
> 
>                  David Bates, assistant area director with the
> Occupational Safety and Health
>                  Administration in Little Rock, said safety
> investigators traveled to the site Thursday
>                  morning. He said OSHA has regulations on how to hoist
> workers but he wasn't
>                  sure which rules would have applied.
> 
> 
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