Copper pipe thief Ralph Henry Elliott, 47, electrocuted to death as he was cutting wire inside the power station of Seneca Coal Resources in Alabama

OAK GROVE, AL

(WIAT) — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 47-year-old man who was found on a mining property near Oak Grove.

According to a release by the sheriff’s office, the man was found dead inside a fenced power station on the property Wednesday afternoon. Deputies were called to the 8800 block of Oak Grove Mine Road around 12:30. A family member reportedly discovered the man after he did not return home the night before.

There were wire cutters and pieces of copper wire near the body inside the fenced area. Authorities believe he was electrocuted while attempting to take copper wire from the power station.

Family members reported that they had last seen the victim the night before. He said he was going to look for scrap metal.

Officials are still waiting on the medical examiner’s report for the official cause of death.



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Man possibly electrocuted while stealing copper wiring from coal mine, authorities say

Updated on August 24, 2017 at 10:11 AM

By Carol Robinson


A Bessemer man was found dead Wednesday inside a fenced area of a mining property near Oak Grove.

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office identified the man as Ralph Henry Elliott. He was 47.

Sheriff's deputies responded about 12:30 p.m. to Seneca Coal Resources in the 8800 block of Oak Grove Mine Road. Elliott was unresponsive inside a gated power station and was pronounced dead on the scene.

Chief Deputy Randy Christian said Elliott was discovered by a family member after he failed to return home the night before. They said he had left home telling them he was going to look for scrap metal.

Wire cutters and pieces of copper wire were near his body, Christian said. "Evidence indicates that he was electrocuted while attempting to take copper wire from the power station,'' he said.

A conclusive cause of death is pending the results from Elliott's autopsy, which is scheduled for today.

SPEEDING DRUNKS DIE HARD IN KANSAS: 3 young men died after their speeding 2009 Ford Fusion they were in ran off the road and struck the left guardrail

OLATHE, Kan. -- Three men in their 20s died Thursday morning when the vehicle they were traveling in hit a guardrail.

The Kansas Highway Patrol online crash report says 21-year-old Darius Thomas was driving 24-year-old Nicholas Sands and 21-year-old Dalton Suggs at the time of the crash. Sands was a star running back while at Olathe South High School.


According to investigators, the 2009 Ford Fusion they were in ran off the road and struck the left guardrail around 3:30 a.m., but what caused the vehicle to hit the guardrail is still unclear.

Traffic was diverted off of eastbound K-10 at Cedar Creek Parkway for several hours while investigators remained on the scene. The eastbound lanes of the highway remained closed through the morning rush. They finally reopened around noon.



This was another speeding DUI crash. Most of these crashes occur in the early a.m. hours, like this case.   Judging from the massive damage to the 2009 Ford Fusion, these people were speeeding prior to the crash.

And of course these black dummies were not wearing their seat-belts.  We are certain they will blame white supremacists for their own stupidity.  They will also ask for the removal of the statutes of God Dionysus, the god of wine, as they will claim he was responsible for their irresponsibility.  All that while they are supported by welfare dollars from hard working Americans.

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OLATHE, Kan. (KSNT) – Three people are dead following a single car crash in Johnson County early Thursday morning.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reports a 2009 Ford Fusion was eastbound on K-10, just west of Cedar Creek Parkway in Olathe, when it ran off the road striking a guardrail.

The crash was reported at 3:17 a.m.

The driver was identified as 21-year-old Darius J. Thomas and the two passengers were identified as Nicholas A. Sands, 24, and Dalton R. Suggs, 21, all three were from Olathe.

According to KHP, all three were not wearing seat belts.  It also appears they were speeding, judging from the massive damage to the 2009 Ford Fusion.



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K-10 crash into guardrail kills three young men in Olathe; victims identified


By Robert A. Cronkleton

bcronkleton@kcstar.com

 
August 24, 2017 6:25 AM


Three men in their 20s died when their car crashed into a guardrail along Kansas 10 in Olathe early Thursday, forcing the highway to remain closed for several hours.

The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the men as Darius J. Thomas, 21, Nicholas A. Sands, 24, and Dalton R. Suggs, 21, all of Olathe.

The crash occurred about 3:15 a.m. along eastbound K-10 at Cedar Creek Parkway in Olathe, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.


The three men were traveling east on K-10 in a 2009 Ford Fusion when Thomas lost control of the car for an unknown reason, said Technical Trooper Candice Breshears, a spokeswoman for the highway patrol.

The eastbound lanes of K-10 remained closed while authorities investigated the crash. The highway reopened about noon.

The crash remains under investigation.

“We are having a lot of crashes out there lately,” Breshears said. People need to “make sure everyone is paying attention to their driving when they driving. Wear your seat belts. Put your cell phones down. Don’t drive distracted.”

People should follow the same safe driving habits every time they get behind the wheel, she said.

Hawk with snake in claws sparks Black Eagle fire in Montana, as it is roasted to death by the electric current following electric wire contact; Montana plans to sue the snake's estate for the damages

Black Eagle, MT

 Hawk with snake in claws sparks Black Eagle fire in Montana, as it is roasted to death by the electric current following electric wire contact.  Montana plans to sue the snake's estate for the damages

Karl Puckett, kpuckett@greatfallstribune.com 
August 23, 2017

Six area fire departments respond



(Photo: Kyra Vanisko)


Dave Lee, acting assistant chief of the Black Eagle Fire Department, says he has a pretty good idea of what caused a fire that burned 40 acres in Black Eagle Wednesday.

It wasn't lightning.

It wasn't farm equipment.

It wasn't arson.

It was a hungry hawk with dinner in its claws.

"A dead hawk was found burned and it had contacted the power lines," Lee said. "The amazing thing is it still had a small snake gripped in its talons."

It isn't unusual for birds and squirrels to cause fires, Lee said.

A bird catching a snake before meeting its fiery end is.

"It was just awesome," said firefighter Kyra Vanisko, who snapped a photo of the charred bird underneath a power pole. "I wasn't expecting to find a hawk with a snake in its claws still."

The bird was toast, but its talons survived, and they remained gripped around a foot-long bull snake even in death.

Because of its condition, Vanisko couldn't make out the species of hawk, which was about the size of small cat.

“He’s a crispy critter,” she said.

Power outages caused by animals and birds in Montana are not unusual, said Butch Larcombe, a spokesman for NorthWestern Energy.

"I have dealt with outages caused by squirrels, beavers, geese, raptors and even snakes," Larcombe said. "But this is my first experience with a hawk-snake combination."

During an outage in the Helena area about six years ago, a deer fawn was found in a power line after an outage, Larcombe said.


A fire off of Rainbow Dam Road burned 40 acres.Firefighters worried about its spread because of extremely dry conditions. (Photo: Kyra Vanisko)

NorthWestern suspects that an eagle may have snatched the fawn from the ground and dropped it on the power line while in flight.

The collision between bird and power line in Black Eagle didn't cause a power outage, but it did cause a fire, Lee said.

The hawk’s wing span may have contacted the power line, generating sparks that started the fire, he said.

Fire departments were notified of the fire at about 11 a.m.

It burned in grassland on property that once served as a landfill off of Rainbow Dam Road.

Firefighters from Black Eagle, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana Air National Guard, Sand Coulee, Gore Hill and Ulm flew to the scene.


“It was running pretty good. It was spreading,” Lee said. “We got it stopped before it crossed the coulee and got into stubble.”


A third alarm was requested because of the great deal of smoke that was visible and the blaze was difficult to get to.

“There’s no public road and it was just in rough terrain, a lot of dips and coulees,” Lee said.

Five or six power poles were damaged.

With conditions so dry, the fire spread quickly.

If the fire would have continued past the coulee where it was stopped, it would have reached a power company switch yard, Lee said.

Cropduster pilot Steven Turner, 40, of Mexicali died after his 1975 Rockwell S-2R Thrush Commander plane crashed and burned in Imperial County, east of Calipatria, CA

Crop duster crashes into field east of Calipatria

Crystal Bedoya

August 22, 2017


CALIPATRIA, Calif. - UPDATE: The Imperial County Fire Department and Imperial County Sheriff's Office have confirmed the identity of the person who died in a small plane Tuesday.

 Steven Turner, 40, of Mexicali, died in the crash. Only one person was on board. Officials say Turner was working at the time, crop dusting.

The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are now investigating. No word yet on what caused the crash.

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A small plane went up in flames after crashing into an agricultural field in Imperial County on Tuesday around noon. Authorities are still investigating the incident.

Imperial County and Calipatria firefighters, as well as paramedics, responded to the field located between the Yocum and Butters Roads east of Calipatria. According to authorities, the incident was reported by a person who was near the area.

Fire Marshal Battalion Angel Morales said the person reporting the incident said there was no explosion or smoke before the plane crashed.

So far authorities have not confirmed whether the pilot died at the time of impact or whether there were other injured people. However, Sheriff patrols arrived as well as the forensic team.

The plane appeared to be a field-spraying aircraft, but authorities have not confirmed this because the investigation continues.

We will have more information as it becomes available.

Aircraft Description

Serial Number	5054R	Status	Valid
Manufacturer Name	ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL	Certificate Issue Date	01/25/2016
Model	S-2R	Expiration Date	01/31/2019
Type Aircraft	Fixed Wing Single-Engine	Type Engine	Turbo-prop
Pending Number Change	None	Dealer	No
Date Change Authorized	None	Mode S Code (base 8 / oct)	51442022
MFR Year	1975	Mode S Code (base 16 / hex)	A64412
Type Registration	Corporation	Fractional Owner	NO

Registered Owner

Name	BANK OF UTAH TRUSTEE
Street	200 E SOUTH TEMPLE STE 210
City	SALT LAKE CITY	State	UTAH
County	SALT LAKE	Zip Code	84111-1346
Country	UNITED STATES

Airworthiness

Engine Manufacturer	WRIGHT	Classification	Restricted
Engine Model	C7BA SERIES	Category	Agriculture and Pest Control
A/W Date	08/07/1975

Date: 22-AUG-2017
Time: 12:00 LT
Type:
Rockwell S-2R Thrush Commander
Owner/operator: Private
Registration: N5022X
C/n / msn: 5054R
Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities: 0
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Imperial County, east of Calipatria, CA - United States of America
Phase: Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature: Agricultural
Departure airport:

Destination airport:

Narrative:
The cropduster plane crashed under unknown circumstances and was destroyed by fire. The pilot died in the crash.

Sources:
http://www.kyma.com/news/crop-duster-crash-into-field-east-of-calipatria/609662580
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Butters+Rd+%26+E+Yocum+Rd,+Calipatria,+CA+92233/@33.1119131,-115.3716174,16z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x80d749515ceb21d7:0xcf8fa9b22ae963e?hl=en-us
FAA
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N5022X

Employee dies after he was crushed by tractor on Lamèque cranberry farm at Fruit-Can Ltee in Chiasson Office, N.B.

Employee dies in accident on Lamèque cranberry farm
Death in workplace accident occurred Monday, provincial agency says

By Elizabeth Fraser, CBC News 
August 23, 2017



A workplace accident has claimed the life of a male employee of a cranberry farm in northern New Brunswick.

The employee died Monday at around 9 a.m. on Lamèque Island.

WorkSafeNB confirmed the death but would not provide details such as the age or hometown of the person who died.

The incident in the community of Chiasson Office involved a tractor, said Beverly Stears of WorkSafeNB.

The employee was transported to the Tracadie-Sheila hospital, where he died, Stears said.

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WorkSafeNB has confirmed to Global News that a man in his 40s died following a workplace accident near Lameque, N.B., on Tuesday.

According to public relations manager Beverly Stears, the accident occurred at Fruit-Can Ltee in Chiasson Office, N.B.

In an emailed statement, she said the incident occurred at about 9 a.m. and involved a tractor.

The worker was transported to the Tracadie hospital where he died, Stears said.
An investigation has been launched and the coroner is also conducting an investigation parallel to that of WorkSafeNB.