Electrician injured Saturday in ‘explosion’ grateful for quick response
Oct 28, 2024, 8:00 AM | Updated: 5:12 pm
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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — An electrician injured after getting caught in an electrical explosion on Saturday morning said he’s grateful paramedics arrived quickly to treat him and four others who were injured.
“It’s just nuts,” said Dax Neilson, one of the contracted electricians.
Neilson said the group was removing wires from an industrial building in West Valley City.
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“We cut power to the whole building,” he said. “I’m sitting there waiting for my buddy to pass me a tool, next thing I know like (a) flash of light (and) a loud, loud noise.”
Neilson describes the electrical explosion
Neilson described what took place as an explosion that knocked him out. When he woke up, Neilson said his hat caught on fire leaving him with burns across his face. And saw his coworker “rolling around on fire.”
Paramedics took that coworker to University of Utah Hospital. They had suffered serious burns, according to West Valley City Fire. Neilson and another person went to the hospital in fair condition. Officials treated two others on the scene.
“What I have, like, my face and stuff, the burns are going to be pretty annoying to deal with. But my buddy, he’s got full body burns,” Neilson said. “Burns and like electrical injuries like this are probably some of the scariest out here. So, it’s very good that [the paramedics] were here quick.”
Neilson said he’s not sure what caused the explosion but said incidents like the one he experienced are rare.
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