Farmers urged to watch for power lines and electrical hazards during harvest.

Combines are heading to the field and trucks are heading to the bin with the 2010 fall harvest.  Powerlines can be nearly invisible hazards for unloading augers and auger wagons.  Additionally, grain bin sites which require substantial electric service can also provide shock and electrocution perils from overhead lines, frayed wiring, and loose grounding contacts.

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The end of summer brings the annual flight of migratory students

With college classes beginning throughout the country, hundreds of thousands of teens will fly off to college, packing computers, television sets, hair dryers and a myriad of electronic devices that will overload circuits in dorms, apartments, fraternity and sorority houses.  And when all of that is plugged in, “lights out” may come earlier than planned.

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Unseasonal rains have washed away safety

Thirteen inches of rain in central Iowa is not only a record, but quite an unseasonal event.  However, there have been many other communities with torrents of water  washing away property, or slowly easing into private homes and commercial buildings.  When that happens, thoughts of damage quickly switch to thoughts about electrical safety.

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