{"id":471257,"date":"2026-10-20T04:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471257\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T04:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:58:22","slug":"another-texas-electrocution-vertikal-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471257\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Texas electrocution | Vertikal.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            20.10.2026<\/p>\n<p>            A man died in Austin, Texas on the afternoon of Friday, October the 9th, after taking his platform too close to overhead power lines. <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on a busy downtown construction site, where several boom lifts and telehandlers were working on an elevated residential site alongside a road.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Firefighters Association, two men were working from a JLG 860SJ boom lift and had moved the platform too close to some overhead lines. <\/p>\n<p>Once the power was disconnected, they attempted to reach the men with a fire rescue platform, but it did not have the reach, and a larger truck mounted lift was called in. When the two were rescued, one was declared dead, while the other was apparently unhurt and refused treatment. Osha is investigating. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second such incident in Texas this month. See <a href=\"https:\/\/vertikal.net\/en\/news\/story\/49485\/texas-electrocution\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas electrocution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following news bulletin has further information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20.10.2026 A man died in Austin, Texas on the afternoon of Friday, October the 9th, after taking his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-471257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}