We can end electrical accidents
EDITOR — It is important to share various ways in which some of the simplest electricity mishaps can be avoided.
I am privy to information which shows that last year alone in the Zesa Northern Region there were 37 electrical accidents in which 15 people died and 12 were left with various degrees of wounds and amputations.
During the same year, in Rimuka, a live electrical cable that fell to the ground left a child with no arms and legs.
People are continuously losing lives and being injured in electrical accidents that can be avoided.
The public should desist from growing plants in domestic areas that grow tall under power lines.
In most cases attempts to draw fruits or even cut the trees for firewood or otherwise have seen people becoming victims to electricity shocks.
In workplaces such as farms, people have a tendency of lifting their equipment such as metal water pipes and other metal objects vertically.
This sometimes results in the material contacting overhead cables causing electrocution.
There are also others who paste adverts and posters on electric poles, without knowledge of their restrictive boundaries on such infrastructure.
In addition, citizens continuously vandalise electricity equipment in an effort to steal cables or transformer oil.
Many cases have been reported of people who have been electrocuted whilst committing such crimes.
Others also fall victim as they try to attend to electricity faults, but without the requisite training for such jobs.
The power company should come up with a nationwide campaign to conscientise the public of the dangers of electricity.
Awareness is a measure of prevention. In the Bible, Hosea 4 verse 6 says: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee.”
Tendai Peter Munyanduri