Window Cleaner Fatally Electrocuted

Man hurt in window-cleaning accident: Johannesburg - A man was badly burnt and critically injured when he apparently received a shock while cleaning windows in Kramerville, Sandton, paramedics said on Saturday. "...It was said that the man was cleaning windows on the outside of the building when he somehow came into contact with electrical wires overhead and he was [shocked] and as a result his body badly burnt," ER24 spokesperson Vanessa Jackson said. She said safety officials at the company would conduct the necessary investigations to discover the exact cause. The man, in his 30s, was extensively burnt in the accident on Friday. He was airlifted to Milpark Hospital's specialised burns unit.

Earlier incident where a man was electrocuted in Sandton: A panic-stricken employee at a business on Kramer street on Kramerville, Sandton, was unable to state exactly what had taken place at the site when she called through to 084124 earlier today. All we knew was that a man had been electrocuted and he was no longer conscious. They needed immediate medical assistance.

Upon arrival on scene, a man in his 30′s was found to be in a critical condition; badly burnt and unresponsive. Paramedics started to treat the extensive burn injuries he had sustained while the Advanced Life Support paramedics prepped his equipment and placed the man onto external ventilation equipment. While they continued his treatment, trying to stabilise his condition before being able to move him, a medical helicopter was called in to assist so as to get the man to a medical facility as soon as possible.

With Milpark hospital having a specialised burns unit, the man was packaged into the air ambulance and a short while later he was airborne to hospital.

Although safety officials at the company will need to conduct the necessary investigations into what exactly happened, it was said that the man was cleaning windows on the outside of the building when he somehow came in contact with electrical wires overhead and he was electrocuted and as a result his body badly burnt.