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Safety Around Power Lines
Power lines are essential to distributing electricity to your home or office, but they are not designed for human contact. It is extremely
dangerous to touch a power line, whether it is overhead or on the ground. Electricity is always trying to get to the ground. Like all good
travelers, electricity takes short cuts whenever it can. If something that conducts electricity gives electricity an easy path to the
ground, electricity will take it! Water and metal are some of the best conductors for electricity.
Humans are a great conductor because our body is made up of 60 percent water. So if you touch an electric circuit and the ground at the
same time, you will become electricity's easiest path. Electricity will flow through you, and you could be seriously hurt or killed. You don't
have to be touching the ground directly to conduct electricity. You could also be touching something that is in contact with the ground, like a
tree or a ladder. Keep yourself, your family and neighborhood children safe!
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