National Grid Barred Charter from All Its Poles After Cable Worker Electrocuted

By Rick Moriarty

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The largest power company in Upstate New York temporarily barred Charter Communications - the largest cable company in the state - from its utility poles after a contractor for Charter was electrocuted last month.

National Grid issued the stop-work order to Charter July 12, the day after James R. Fogg was killed while running cable television lines in Yorkshire, a town in Cattaraugus County in western New York. 

Fogg, 39, of Fairfield, Maine, was in the basket of a bucket truck on Block Road about 4:36 p.m. when he came into contact with a primary electric line, causing him to be shocked with high voltage, state police said.

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Source: syracuse.com (via Empire Report New York) 

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