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Safety Alert – Suspension of high voltage live line work

Background - what happened?

On 24 May 2019, a member of an Essential Energy crew undertaking high voltage live line work on a 22,000 volt powerline in Narromine is believed to have experienced an electric shock.
The employee was transferred to hospital for assessment and monitoring, and subsequently released that afternoon.

Essential Energy is investigating the circumstances that led to this incident.
Until the contributing factors and causal pathways are understood, all high voltage live line work has been suspended within Essential Energy.

What do you need to do?

  1. Contact your local representative if you have any high voltage live line work currently scheduled for completion by Essential Energy.
  2. Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au