RUSK COUNTY, Texas — A man was flown to a Shreveport hospital after being shocked by a power line in Rusk County.
According to Rusk County Sheriff Johnwayne Valdez, the incident occurred just after 2 p.m., in the 1300 block of County Road 4117, south of Carlisle and New London.
Sheriff Valdez tells CBS19, the man was reportedly climbing a SWEPCO power pole looking for copper (neutral lines on power poles are made of copper). However, there was a pigtail (a technique used to lengthen short wires or combine multiple wires together and leave one conductor that can connect to electrical devices) on the neutral line and when the power from the live wire jumped to the neutral line, the man was shocked and thrown from the power pole.
The man is expected to recover.
