I’d like to thank you for being a decent human being. This video is completely respectable. Even while witnessing such a tragic event you kept it clean and the video was even shot to be with the man and his family in mind and not for shock value. I want to thank you for checking with the family before sharing this and thank the family for understanding the value in this being shared. I’ll keep this generalized but as a Lineman/Foreman here in Florida since 06 I can tell you that though this video is tragic, it is a valuable tool. Unfortunately some of us have had to dead man down our dead friend or pole buddy and know and remember ever little detail. How everyone reacts differently to such events. How seconds feel like minutes and how minutes become life and death. Even with all the training and simulation in the world with regular frequency some will freeze up in panic or fear. Some become leaders and gain super strength. Bad thing is you won’t know till that time comes. Hopefully it never does. Trying to convey this to younger, upcoming lineman is hard and trying to tell your stories of the shit hit the fan moments to employees and have an impact is a hard thing. But this video really does just that. Even civilians have a hard time watching this and as a line worker and teacher in that industry it’s a terribly tragic video. So I think like me you probably understand the down thumbs this may get from those who don’t get the posting, recording or sharing of this. I could rant on and on but in all honesty I just wanted to thank you and the family for sharing this. This will save lives. This is a extremely valuable and rare tool to have in education in rescue and response in these event in our industry. Thank you sir. To the family, thank you for this as well and so sorry for your loss. He will always be a brother to all of us and this video will save lives no doubt.

Thank you for being respectful in this video. The man who was injured is my cousin and he passed away on Sept 8. We’re all just devastated 💔

From the Lineman brotherhood in New Zealand, thoughts and prayers to this man, his colleagues and his family. God bless.

Friends don't let friends work for Pike.

it took them like 17 minutes to get him down. nobody on the crew knew how to work the lower controls even the foreman. if you’re thinking of getting into line work don’t go to pike. friends don’t let friends work for pike

Retired electric crew foreman with over 44 years of line work. This is a crew’s worst nightmare. We all feel for this brother. Stay safe and watch out for each other.

so sad about him! hugs to him and his poor wife and kids! i know they will miss him forever! God bless them and give them strength!!!

Love & Light to his loved ones.

My condolences to his family this man didn’t deserve that nor did his family. Go rest high brother.

Does anyone know what went wrong here? There has to be safety measures in place that prevent us from losing hard working Americans daily, and were they overlooked or neglected? I know safety measures don't always prevent a tragedy, but its a good foundation. We had a family member pass the same way when I was around 10 years old, I hope this industry didnt let all those deaths be meaningless by not learning how to protect others or prevent tragedy. This really sucks for this family! Definitely in my prayers!

So very sorry and my condolences to the wife and kids and all the family. This is my biggest fear as an electrician. Don’t like to see it happen to anyone.

this man didn't deserve to be injured like this. this is so painful and deadly

This is terrible. None of these guys should be in bucket. And that second bucket isn't even set up in a work position, meaning they must've arrived after the fact. And it looks like I see an emergency responder around walking around when the bucket is still in the work position. By the time they arrive we should have him hooked up to our defib and be doing cpr. And the other lineman takes his time to remove his sleeves instead of getting out of that bucket and helping because they still haven't figured out how to tip the bucket. What a disgrace. And of course it's pike, pull in kill everybody. What a rat outfit, and we lost a brother, father, and a loving husband because of it, what a shame.

With so much rubber in the air. Does anyone know what happened and what was the second flash? Prayer to him, his family and fellow Lineman. Be safe, don’t rush, use your rubber and PPE.

How did it happen?

Once lived with a guy who fell across 11kv air break switch and lived

Where the fuck was the guys lower controls. I’m a groundman and that’s the first thing that should be taught it’s a shock and Awh.

I'm sorry.

Did he die or just seriously injured?

Wow.. that sucks!

I'm terribly sorry for your loss. The guy in the other bucket really risked his life by trying to move the wires out of the way protected just with gloves. I apologize in advance, but what I don't quite get is why they couldn't de-energize the lines, either at a switch or remotely even at the substation if necessary? One never knows if that could have changed the outcome but it could have made the rescue attempt a little less harrowing, I think.

Thats a real shame that happened, can't believe how long that rescue took to get him to the ground. Ibew or not hes still a brother. Hopefully he makes a full recovery

unfortunately this sometimes will happen may he rest in peace forever and I hope his family has been getting on ok

Sometimes back feeding gets the lineman, or induced voltage, or capacitance. Those lines don't always stay de-energized.

Heaven forbid u cut power to the line.... smh.

What is the voltage, what was left hanging on that center conductor. Very tragic indeed. RIP brother.

You need not look very far to see that Pike Electric clearly has a HORRID accident/safety record with OSHA.

What did he do wrong??

Damn! Just heard about this on the west coast. Lost another brother. RIP

Yall never done bucket rescue before we done it every March

Did he died?

Who got shocked?

Damn, just read further. I am sorry.

That big truck was in the way to start with

hate to see this......

Looks like a bodie pull, sadly

Seriously people his family wants the video up to show all the bullshit that went down. His wife even shared it on Facebook.

I hope beyond hope, hydro guys don't deserve this.

Pike is located in North Carolina affiliated with Michael Jordan and a race to rewire America

Life ain’t worth 400k a year

He has passed

The guy saying I hope he is alright, when you get hit by this voltage, yur done if yur not conscious. Done. Had one where I worked, one good loud boom, dumped. No one was even worried about gettung him down , ems wise. They knew he was gone