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An electrical explosion and subsequent fire injured two employees in the Jerritt Canyon Mill 
 
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December 19, 2013
 

The employees were injured after an arc flash and minor fire, said Shaun Heinrichs, chief financial officer for Veris Gold.

 

"One employee was airlifted with burns and another was taken into Elko with smoke inhalation," Heinrichs said. "Our thoughts are with our employees and their families.  

 

Safety is our utmost priority."

An update on the employees' conditions was not available.

Veris Gold did not provide details of the accident.

 

"An arc flash is an undesired electric discharge that travels through the air between conductors or from a conductor to a ground," according to WhatIs.com. "The resulting explosion can cause fires and serious harm to equipment and people."

 

Authorities are still investigating what caused the electrical explosion, said Tim Woolever, NDF chief for the northern region.

 

He said two people were working on the main power supply to the main crusher when the accident occurred.

"They said they were repairing the terminals and something arced," Woolever said.

 

He believed at least one of the men injured was an electrician and they were working on a 480 volt panel.

 
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Electrician Stranded in Alaskan Wilderness for Week
 
Adrian Knopps was stranded for seven days in September after his hunting partner, Garrett Hagen, drowned while boarding their boat.

Article Courtesy of EC&M  
December 31, 2013 
 
A Michigan electrician on a hunting trip spent a week stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with no food, shelter or warm clothes. Adrian Knopps was stranded for seven days in September after his hunting partner, Garrett Hagen, drowned while boarding their boat, according to a report from Detroit News

  

Knopps, 51, who is a self-employed electrician from Grand Ledge, Michigan, was sleep-deprived, hallucinating and slipping into hypothermia.

 

Sharing a river delta with bears and wolves, he was pelted by rain the whole time including a storm packing 70-mph winds. Because of the wet conditions, he rarely sat or lay down, sleeping three hours the entire week. During high tide in the middle of the night, he clutched the upright roots of an overturned tree while surrounded by a mile of water in all directions.

 

"You try to live one moment at a time and do what you have to," he told The Detroit News in his first extended newspaper interview about the ordeal. Coast Guard officials in Alaska said they had never seen anyone survive so long under those conditions...
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