Moultrie lineman electrocuted in Tift County

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August 10, 2011

Staff Reports The Moultrie Observer The Moultrie Observer Wed Aug 10, 2011, 10:52 PM EDT

TIFTON — A Georgia Power Co. employee from Colquitt County was killed Tuesday night while working on a line in Tift County to restore power after a storm, the company said Wednesday.

Steven Broadus Sellers, 48, of Tallokas Road, was working at about 10 p.m. on lines in the Brookfield community near Tifton. The deadly accident is under investigation.

“We don’t know the cause,” company spokesperson Lynn Wallace said. “It will be some time before we know. We do know he came in electrical contact with a wire. He was doing storm (power) restoration when something happened.”

In addition to the investigation, the company initiated a voluntary stand down, Wallace said. During that time it will stop operations to evaluate safety.

The company has had two fatal accidents involving line crew over the previous two years, she said. The last was in March when an employee died from a fall.

“Obviously it’s not something that happens every day,” Wallace said. “Safety is very ingrained in our culture.”

Lynn Lovett, Georgia Power’s Tifton area manager, said Wednesday that Sellers had more than 20 years of experience as a lineman with almost four of those years with Georgia Power Co.

“He was an outstanding worker and was committed to satisfying customers,” Lovett said. “That’s what he was out doing last night.”

Sellers leaves behind a wife and four children between the ages of five and 19 years.

“We’re focusing on the family right now,” Lovett said. “He has a beautiful family and also a Georgia Power family.”

Alan Mauldin of The Moultrie Observer and Latasha Everson of The Tifton Gazette contributed to this story.

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