Dive Brief:

• A construction company owner and a dump-truck driver died Wednesday at the company's headquarters in South Windsor, Conn., when the truck's dump body was raised and touched a power line, local police said.
• Lloyd Folsom, 55, who owned the company that bore his name, was trying to help 22-year-old Connor Betts, the driver, officials said.
• Betts was electrocuted after he raised the truck's dump bed into a power line and touched the outer metal while trying to get out of the truck, police said. Folsom was also electrocuted after touching the outer metal while helping Betts.

Dive Insight:

This tragic story reinforces the lesson that staying put in a vehicle after it has come in contact with power lines can be the safest thing to do. Because the truck was insulated from the ground by its tires, it had high energy but not a flowing current. When Betts and Folsom touched the truck and the ground they completed the circuit, causing it to flow.