NB Power says pair of transmission tower climbing teens risked injury or death
SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A safety official in New Brunswick says two teens don’t know how close they came to serious harm after trying a stunt that has hospitalized or killed three people in two other provinces.
NB Power has asked police to look into the incident, in which the boys climbed a 60-metre high transmission tower near Saint John and posted video of the heart-stopping ascent to social media.
Duff Boyd, the utility’s director of health and safety, said Friday that while it’s bad enough that the two boys climbed the tower without safety equipment, they did so in the vicinity of powerful electrical currents.
Boyd said electricity is an “insidious killer” that can jump the conductors on the tower and badly burn anyone in the vicinity.