Designed to help field supervisors improve the productivity and safety of their field workforce by focusing on issues related to linemen such as fall protection, storm response and infrastructure upgrades.
This was an ugly, mean, vicious storm that perched itself over the high-density population centers of the Northeast to grind down New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island, New York. And because Sandy slowed as she hit land, she stacked three...
Linemen at West Penn Power in Butler, Pennsylvania, were pulling conductor by hand, leading to shoulder and elbow injuries. At times, the field crews would depend on a pickup with a block on the pole to pull in the conductor, but because the...