AAP General News (Australia)
04-16-2007
Vic: Workers hurt in electrical substation accident
MELBOURNE, April 16 AAP - Two university workers have been taken to a Melbourne hospital
suffering burns after an accident in an electrical substation.
WorkSafe Victoria spokesman Michael Birt said the two men were working in an electrical
substation at Monash University's Clayton campus, in Melbourne's south-east when the accident
happened today.
"Around 2.15pm two Monash University electricians and a subcontractor were working
in a substation near Wellington Road, when the two Monash employees received electric
shocks," Mr Birt said.
"They suffered burns to their face, hands and arms," he said.
"They were taken to The Alfred Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries."
Mr Birt said the men had been working in the substation after a pole fire at 12.30pm
in a nearby street had disrupted electricity supplies to the university.
"They were testing cabling as a result of the earlier outage when they suffered the
shock," he said.
Mr Birt said the third man who was working in the substation was not injured.
He said WorkSafe investigators were at the scene.
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KEYWORD: SHOCK
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