Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette via AP
A CSPD officer looks over the scene where two men in their twenties died after a drilling truck exploded into flames on Thursday, May 10, 2018, near the Ray Nixon Power Plant south of Colorado Springs, Colo. Three subcontractors were taking soil samples to gather preliminary data on a Colorado Springs Utilities project to expand the main entrance gate to the power plant when the truck hit a 12,250-volt overhead power line. The third, who was standing further away from the truck, was uninjured. Getting your player ready...
COLORADO SPRINGS — The El Paso County Coroner’s Office has identified the two men who died last week after being electrocuted near the Ray Nixon Power Plant.
that the office on Tuesday identified the men as 25-year-old Benjamin Hey and 24-year-old Joseph Sampedro.
Arem Benyamin, general manager of Colorado Springs Utilities’ Energy Supply Division, said they had been taking soil samples for an expansion of the power plantap main entrance gate when their truck hit a 12,250-volt overhead power line.
Hey and Sampedro died at the scene. A third worker, who was standing farther from the truck, was uninjured.
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