Contractor Trains Crews on Live-Line Work Methods

Contractor Trains Crews on Live-Line Work Methods

The increasing power flow congestion on transmission lines is magnifying the need for more live-line work. Before diving into this work method, however, utilities and line contractors must train their crews to safely work barehand or perform hot-stick work. “Bare-hand work is clean, and each day you’re going from structure to structure, so the pace is constant,” says Joshua Magoon, superintendent for Three Phase Line Construction, a Rochester, New Hampshire-based contractor. “By comparison, distribution work is on a smaller scale and closer to the ground. Live-line work is a specialty job in a dangerous world that not everyone is certified to do.” 

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