Post-tensioning strand stressing 'tails' are cut off the stressing-ends of buildings every day, commonly in the USA with an O/A torch.
In my local downtown area a new 30+ story office building was being constructed a few years back, with zero-boundary to an adjacent busy business-district street. A driver was stopped at the adjacent intersection traffic lights, as the ironworker cut the 4' long strands tails from the slab edge - he lost his grip of the greasy strand and it fell 10+ floors to the windshield of the car below. Driver did not suffer injury.
Such near-misses are somewhat common from construction building sites.
Holiday Inn restaurant in town. Workers dropped a 110# roll of tar paper through a skylight. It fell three stories landing like a spear in the middle of a round table six people were eating at. No one was injured... physically...
While I avoid construction site as a general rule, and granted the only time I need to be there is usually at the end, the worst I have had is a near mess with a hard hat that was dropped from a co-worker on a transformer.
Then again, these construction workers likely don't have to worry much about electrical shock.
Actually I was meaning by transmission voltage shock. But I can see that may not apply to road work. Dump trucks that rise the beds under the lines, yes it happens too often. Or even trash trucks.
Bigger issue is they drive off and don't report it, and we have to find out by other means.
Also construction dig in's after the line is marked. Why do we bother marking them if it is to be ignored?
But then again, I have also seen the same with water and gas lines.
Someone digging into a sewer line is it's own reward.
On that same subject, I have seen distribution lines crossing the highway with several splices (not an easy thing for ACSR conductor). The lines meet code, so how did this happen?
