Electrocution Hazard - Contact Voltage - Covered on CBS Evening News

[W6SJK]

Hazardous light poles, manhole covers, fences etc - news piece on CBS tonight. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7379271n

 

[cornbread]

Seen that, very interesting espically the technology they used to drive around and find the problems.

 

[sii]

OK, that's grabbed my attention pretty quick. My daughter goes to an in-home day care in my neighborhood and the house has a decorative street lamp between the sidewalk and the street. It took a year and a half of calling to get the city to come replace the missing hand-hole cover so I'm guessing no maintenance has ever been done on these. Could a sufficient check be done just by sticking the other lead of a DMM in the ground? I couldn't tell what the guy in the video was using for a ground reference.