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October 1, 2007

Update: Power line may have badly burned man

PROVIDENCE -- A man in his early 20s was sent to Rhode Island Hospital with severe burns after possibly coming into contact with a transmission line.

The man, who has not yet been named, was burned on roughly 100 percent of his body, according to James Taylor, chief of communications for the Providence Fire Department.

David Graves, a spokesman for National Grid, said the company was sending investigators to the scene, on Stanhope St.

The initial incident was called into MacGregor Street, which intersects Stanhope between Route 146 and Charles Street.

The nature of the accident has not yet been officially determined, but Graves said it appears that the man – who is not a National Grid employee – may have come in contact with the power company’s equipment.

A transmission line runs through that area, he said.

A transmission line, by definition, carries more than 69,000 volts, Graves said. The standard voltage in a U.S. household socket is 120 volts.

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