Look Up and Live

****** Electric Safety Requires Everybody’s Energy

Electricity provides necessities and luxuries that certainly add to the quality of our lives. However, carelessness with electricity can unfortunately result in burns, injuries or death.

Similar to lightening, electricity is always striving to find a path to the ground. Should any part of your body come in contact directly or indirectly with an energized object, you have provided that pathway to ground and therefore, are in immediate danger.

Pitt & Greene EMC works to keep power lines in safe condition. Still we need your help and encourage you to remember the following safety rules.

Consider any and all electric lines dangerous and “live.” Never raise objects (example: farm equipment, metal pipes, kites, ladders and antennas) up without looking first.
Don’t attempt to raise or move electric lines.
If your power lines are underground, call Pitt & Greene EMC before digging.
Report to Pitt & Greene any potential power line hazard, including trees growing into the lines.
Always stay away from power lines on the ground and warn others to do so too. Call Pitt & Greene EMC immediately.
Never touch a person or object that is in contact with a power line.
If a power line hits your car while you’re in it, try to drive away. If you can’t move the car, stay inside until help arrives. If the car catches on fire, jump clear and make sure you do not touch the metal of the car and the ground at the same time.
Never let hoses, sprinklers or irrigation systems spray water on power lines.
Instruct children to fly kites in an open field and not climb in trees that have power lines running in or near them.

Electricity is a safe, clean and efficient energy source when used sensibly. But all it takes is just one careless moment to show how deadly it can be. Don’t put your life on the line----LOOK UP AND LIVE!