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    :: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 ::

    Burn Victim Settles With IBM, Contractor By RACHEL KONRAD, AP
    An IBM supervisory engineer asked McNabb and another Fluor contractor to scavenge replacement parts from shutdown electrical equipment in a building where the electrical unit allegedly was labeled with a yellow 'out of service' tag. When McNabb applied his wrench to a piece of equipment, 12,400 volts exploded through his body, said his attorney Richard Alexander.
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