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LSTC Students Attend AMEC's Overhead & Aerial Basket School
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Cory Bryan, Mike Candee, Jarod Carroz, Kyle Dunham, Travis Graves,Dustin Griffith, Jeremy Hudson, Tory Hurt, Ethan Hustead, John Jackson, Kevin Kennedy, Ryan King, Matt Kirchhoff, Garrett Larimore, Anthony Luebbering, Derrick Luvin, Eric Markway, David Ross, Steven Sack, Ryan Salmons, Nathan Sanders, Adam Smith and Cole Talley, students of Linn State Technical College, Linn, attended Overhead and Aerial Basket School at the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperative Training Center on October 26-29 in Jefferson City.
Training included instruction on safe work practices for direct hand contact rubber gloving of energized lines, the use of live line tools and proper insulated cover up materials for poles and conductors. Safe positioning of vehicles at the work site and the importance of pre-job conference was stressed.
Instructors from the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, Jefferson City; Hubbell Power Systems, Inc., Centralia, and numerous rural electric cooperatives across Missouri provided the training and instruction to the 61 linemen attending the school.
AMEC is the service organization for the state's 47 electric cooperatives which serves more than 560,000 rural Missourians.
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