Western Power Distribution

Type: Company

Name: Western Power Distribution

First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 1 Documents

Winners announced for Cranium Caviar summer competition (Forcewide)

The Cranium Caviar competition winners are awarded their prizes. Top: Cara and Louie with Pylon man.The winners of the summer holiday competition run by the Avon and Somerset Police youth engagement website, Cranium Caviar, with prizes donated by Western ... [Avon and Somerset Police - 10/23/2009]

Entities: Pylon, Western Power Distribution, Wii Fit, Video Game Consoles, Liaison

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents

Halfway through labour she informed me she had managed to finish the VAT in between contractions while I was asleep!

BABY Harrison arrived on Rent day. Fourth cut silage was in full swing when the phone rang with 8 hectares (20 acres) remaining. Claire wanted to know how long I would be!Now she is a farming-bred lass and understands these things.We managed to finish ... [Farmers Guardian - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Western Power Distribution, Feed Wheat, Atrazine

First Reported 10/16/2009 - Updated 10/16/2009 - 1 Documents

Cable collapse shuts M5 for hours

More than 25 miles of the M5 near Bristol were closed for several hours after a car left the road and struck a pole carrying 11,000V electric cables.Police closed the busy motorway early on Friday after the cables were left dangling over the carriageway ... [BBC - 10/16/2009]

Entities: Portishead, Diversion, Western Power Distribution, Western Power

First Reported 10/21/2009 - Updated 10/21/2009 - 1 Documents

Man falls on to electricity pylon

A man is feared dead after falling on to live wires attached to a pylon near a hospital in Weston-super-Mare.Witnesses reported seeing a blue 'thunderbolt' and a buzzing noise at coming from the Western Power Distribution electricity pylon.The victim ... [BBC - 10/21/2009]

Entities: Pylon, Western Power Distribution, Witness

First Reported 10/21/2009 - Updated 10/21/2009 - 1 Documents

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Man in electricity pylon rescue

The patient was eventually talked down from the pylon A man has been talked down from an electricity pylon near a hospital in Weston-super-Mare - after apparently surviving contact with live wire.Witnesses reported seeing a 'blue thunderbolt' and hearing ... [BBC - 10/21/2009]

Entities: Pylon, Western Power Distribution, NHS

Quotes

...'The fallen cable is only 4m from the motorway so we've activated a strategic diversion route,' he said. "Power engineers are at the scene and are working to solve the problem, but this could take some time." Crews from Western Power Distribution were given a police escort to the site from their depot in Weston-super-Mare because of the heavy traffic

Cable collapse shuts M5 for hours [BBC - 10/16/2009]

1. Western Power Distribution pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, in that it: "failed to conduct [its] undertaking, namely electricity distribution, in such a way as to ensure, so far as was reasonably practicable, that persons not in [its] employment who may be affected thereby, including Professor Roland Levinsky, were not exposed to risks to their safety."

Western Power Distribution fined 200,000 after electrocution fatality [Government News Network - 11/27/2008]

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