Burny, Lance

Lance and Todd at WOC 2008

Lance owns Sigalarms

Power lines have always been a hazard to personnel operating or working around equipment with booms or extensions that have the capability of reaching power lines. While contact with overhead high-voltage lines represents only 5% of total electrical accidents, it is responsible for approximately 45% of the fatalities. Most of these accidents could have been avoided by the proper installation and use of a high-voltage proximity warning system such as SIGALARM. In fact, SIGALARM has been providing power line protection for over 41 YEARS. There has never been a single injury or accident involving equipment equipped with a SIGALARM that is installed and adjusted properly. SIGALARM is a solid state electronic safety system used for detecting the electrostatic field of any AC power line. It provides both audible and visual warning signals to alert the operator and attendant ground personnel when the boom comes within proximity of an energized high-voltage power line. For years, bare, non-insulated, high-voltage power distribution and transmission lines have created a hazard to users of cranes and other equipment that can reach and touch them. Such power lines are not easily observed by the equipment operator and supporting work crews because: Attention is directed or diverted to the other activities. (Operational personnel looking at the load at the time of contact.) The power lines are above the operating personnel and outside normal functional range of vision. (People generally are looking horizontally or towards the ground, not looking upwards.) Visual judgment of clearance between raised booms of hoist lines and power lines is subject to error. (Against a bright sky, it is difficult for a viewer on the ground or in a cab to correctly gauge the distance between a power line and a hoist line or raised boom.) The power lines may be camouflaged. (The viewer is unable to see the lines against a background of trees, buildings, etc.) Virtually all fatal electrocutions are the result of equipment being unintentionally brought into contact with the power lines. These occurrences can be reduced dramatically by using SIGALARM's proximity alarm systems. A SIGALARM system is an "electronic eye" that serves as a backup operational aid.

For more information on how SIGALARM can help your company, please contact:

Lance Burney- CEO- lance@sigalarminc.com