Copper Theft: The Metal Theft Epidemic
By Scott Berinato

Photo: Bonneville Power/Pete Jeter

SUBSTATION CARNAGE:

In 2005, a man cut copper grounding wires (similar to the examples inset) at a substation in Oregon. When he bumped his head on a live line, seventy-two hundred volts coursed through him, and he burst into flames.

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