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Cooler air will soon try to enter your warm home, so many homeowners will be caulking and weather stripping throughout your neighborhood. As you join them, ensure that you are safe from contact with either overhead wires near your home, and well clear of the weatherhead on your electric service. When you try to increase your energy efficiency, be sure you increase your electrical safety.
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Combines are heading to the field and trucks are heading to the bin with the 2010 fall harvest. Powerlines can be nearly invisible hazards for unloading augers and auger wagons. Additionally, grain bin sites which require substantial electric service can also provide shock and electrocution perils from overhead lines, frayed wiring, and loose grounding contacts.
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With college classes beginning throughout the country, hundreds of thousands of teens will fly off to college, packing computers, television sets, hair dryers and a myriad of electronic devices that will overload circuits in dorms, apartments, fraternity and sorority houses. And when all of that is plugged in, “lights out” may come earlier than planned.
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