Workplace hazards: Three FESCO employees ‘serious’ after electrocution

Witnesses say that they had accidentally touched live wires

FAISALABAD: Three Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) workers were taken to a hospital in a critical condition after they received an electric shock on Wednesday.

FESCO spokesman Tahir Sheikh told The Express Tribune Muhammad Sarwar, Ahmad Sharif and Zafar Aziz were doing maintenance work at 132-KV Thikriwala grid station when the incident occurred. He said witnesses had told them that they had accidentally touched live wires. They were taken to Allied Hospital by Rescue 1122. Doctors at the hospital said their condition was serious. He said FESCO CEO had taken notice of the incident and formed a team to investigate the matter.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 29^th, 2015.