Wally Reardon "Mountrail County Sheriff Ken Halvorson said in a news release his office received a 911 call at 11:30 a.m. Monday after Namon Smith, 42, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Zachary Roberts, 25, Lakeland, Ga., fell from a tower about six miles northeast of New Town. The men were working at the 250-foot level of a 300-foot tower when one worker fell and struck the other worker, causing him to also fall, Halvorson said. Both men wore harnesses and hard hats and the reason for the safety equipment failure is under investigation, he said. The men worked for Monarch Towers of Sarasota, Fla., which is a subcontractor of Basin Electric Power Cooperative, the news release said. They were working to reinforce a tower owned by Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative so more equipment could be added to the tower, authorities said."
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:56:02 +0000
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