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Show Cranes Knock Out Power in Two Separate Accidents 1 Two power outages resulted last week when a road construc- tion crane came in contact with high voltage lines, it was re-j re-j ported by oific'als of Calif rnia-j rnia-j Pacifi'.' Utilities Company. The accidents occurred whore i the new Interstate Highway 1-15 , is under construction north of , Cedar City. At 10 a. m. on Dec. 28, a por-: por-: tion of Cedar City was without j power for two minutes when a crane being elevated came in contact with the compay's 31.5 KV transmission line. At 1:05 a. m. Doc. 31, the same crane, while traveling, came in contact with the same transmission transmis-sion line, cutting off power to the west side of Cedar City and all service areas west and north of Cedar City for ten minutes. It was most fortunate that no injuries occurred with either accident ac-cident power company officials said. |