Watch competition for utility workers
Published: Fri, Oct. 10, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Fri, Oct. 10, 2008 02:25AM
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closeRALEIGH -- Line workers from electric cooperatives across the state will demonstrate their life-saving skills in a competition Wednesday in Raleigh.
The workers will compete against the clock in a simulation in which a fellow worker is unconscious atop a utility pole. The competitors must radio for help, don full climbing gear, scale 20 feet up a utility pole, rig a rope, lower a 105-pound mannequin and begin CPR.
The event is open to the public. It will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the lawn of the N.C. Electric Cooperatives' headquarters at the intersection of Capital and Sumner boulevards.
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The two-time defending champion, Leonard Person of Tri-County Electric Membership Corp. in Dudley, installed a utility pole in his backyard to practice his climbing skills, according to a news release issued by the electric cooperatives.
The first-prize winner will receive $1,000.
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