Muriel Schwenck
Beloved Curmudgeon
A cautionary tale.
This is a classic electrical accident. People who are not used to this kind of work lose perspective on where the electricity is located, or they don't even think about it.
High school coach, wife dead in electrocution on baseball field, son injured
<p>A high school coach and his wife were killed after they were electrocuted on a high school baseball field in Liberty County, Florida, according to news outlets.</p>
www.wftv.com
10 March 2019
A high school coach and his wife were killed after they were electrocuted on a high school baseball field in Liberty County, Florida, according to news outlets.
The couple’s son, who tried to help, was also injured in the accident, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
As many as 30 people were on the baseball field Sunday at Liberty High School with head coach Corey Crum and his wife Shana Crum helping install a new scoreboard after Hurricane Michael destroyed the school’s old one.
‘We had ordered a new scoreboard. It had come in and so him, along with a few of the baseball players and some parents were out working on that, and he was on some kind of lift, and he got into an electrical line,” school board member Kyle Peddie told the Democrat.
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Liberty County Sheriff Eddie Joe White called the deaths “a tragedy” and described the accident this way: "The coach, himself, was running a piece of equipment. It impacted a high power line, and the piece of equipment he was running became electrified. He was electrocuted. A white female who was there tried to render assistance. She was electrocuted. An actual member of the team came up to help. He was also electrified, but he was knocked away from the incident.”
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