ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 TAG: 9608210040
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WILLIAMSBURG
A truck driver was burned Tuesday when his truck's dump bed touched power lines and he brushed against the truck's door.
The dump bed touched the lines - carrying 190,000 to 230,000 volts - while the truck was unloading stones at H&L Paving, said Michael Player, a York County Fire Department battalion chief.
The driver, Lyttleton Toulson, was standing next to the truck, operating controls that raise the dump bed, Player said.
Toulson let go of the controls, turned and brushed against the truck's door.
An electrical current entered his body through the shoulder and exited through his left foot, knocking him unconscious.
Toulson did not go into cardiac arrest, Player said.
Toulson, 32, was in satisfactory condition at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News.
Virginia Power crews worked more than four hours to ground the truck so it could be moved.
- Associated Press
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