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Quick action saves worker
Posted Dec 5, 2012
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Press of Atlantic City
A man working in New Jersey was nearly killed when he was shocked by high-voltage transmission lines. A police officer was able to get the worker’s heart beating again through CPR. “They start compressing on the chest and supplying oxygen -- and that might have been enough to re-set the rhythm and regain normal electric activity,” said Daniel Edmundowicz, chief of cardiology at Temple University Hospital. “Fortunately, it sounds like he was not without oxygen for a long period of time.”