Sheldon Joseph Harris

Sheldon Joseph Harris, 26, lineman, died attempting to save Kenneth C. Collier, 21, lineman, from electric shock, Painesville, Ohio, August 20, 1930. Collier and Harris were at work on a crossarm that was attached to two poles which were nine and a half feet apart. Ten feet below the crossarm was a steel crossarm to which wires charged with a current of 2,300 volts of electricity were attached. Collier descended to the lower crossarm and, as he stood and held to a guy wire, received a shock. Harris descended to the lower crossarm and, standing without a hold on anything, repeatedly struck Collier on the chest with his fist. He knocked Collier free from the guy wire, and Collier fell to the ground. Harris fell on one of the charged wires. A little later after the current had been turned off, he was removed from the wire, but he could not be revived. Neither could Collier be revived.