News Truck Electrocutions Prompt Calls for Microwave Mast Safety Standard

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

LOS ANGELES - Journalists, both print and broadcast, are supposed to report the news, not make it. But the May 22 electrocution of a Los Angeles television reporter and a news truck crew member was in the Southern California headlines. It is just the latest example of what broadcast unions say is a need for a new safety order covering the microwave masts used by television stations. Four unions, the American Federation of Tel

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