ALJ decision in JW Powerline, LLC Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
Late at night on May 2, 2018, the power went out at a drilling site in rural Texas after a thunderstorm. Respondent received a call to go out and restore power to the equipment. Ultimately, Respondent determined that a downed power line had caused the disruption and called out a two-person crew to perform the repair. The crew foreman misidentified a downed line as the source of the problem. He believed it belonged to Respondent’s customer when, in fact, the line belonged to the power company. While he was in the process of splicing together the downed line, the crew foreman was electrocuted when the power company restored power to the line at a recloser station nearly five miles away.