ON DEC 1 2000 I WAS WORKING FOR A CONTRACTOR FOR OG&E BUILDING POWERLINES.WELL IT WAS A COLD WINDY DAY AND MY BOSS TOLD ME TO GO UP IN THE AIR TO HELP HIM MOVE OVER SOME LINES FROM THE OLD POLE TO THE NEW POLE.IM NOT A LINEMAN BUT I HAD THE MOST EXSPERIANCE THERE SO I WENT UP AND WE MOVED THE TOP CIRCUT OVER BEFORE LUNCH WHICH WAS 34500 VOLTS THEN AFTER LUNCH WE STSRTED THE BOTTOM CIRCUT.WELL WE GOT THEM ALL MOVED OVER THEN MY BOSS TOLD ME TO RUN THE JUMPERS WHILE HE LAYED UP THE WIRE ON THE POLE BEHINDE US.SO I DID WHICH I FINISHED BEFORE HE DID SO I WAS LOOKING OVER THE POLE TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ELSE I COULD DO.I FOUND A GROUND NOT HOOKED UP SO I TOLD THE GUY ON THE GROUND TO TOSS ME A GUY CRAB HE DID THEN I MOVED THE BUCKET AROUND SO I COULD HOOK IT UP.THE LAST THING I REALLY REMEMBER IS MY HARD HAT BLOWING OFF.I WOKE UP IN DALLAS,TEXAS AT THE BURN UNIT.NOBODY SAW WHAT HAPPENED SO I STILL DONT NO WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED BUT WHAT IM GUESSING IS MY HARD HAT BLEW OFF AND ONE OF THE MICANICALS(TEMPARARY JUMPER) BLEW UP AGAINST MY HEAD AND IT HAD A HOLE IN IT.I WENT TO NUMEROUS DOCTORS BUT NO ONE CAN TELL ME WHY IM IN AS MUCH PAIN IM IN.MOST SAID ITS ALL IN MY HEAD.SO IVE BEEN TO DOCTORS TO GET INJECTIONS IN MY DISC AND NOTHING HELPS .MANY MRIS STILL NOTHING.SO I WENT THREW COURT AND THE JUDGE RULED I WAS 5% DISABLE WHOLE BODY AND REWARDED ME 4700.00 DOLLARS AND WORKERS COMP TO SEND ME TO SCHOOL TO LEARN A NEW TRADE.SO I GOT EVALUATED BY PROS AND THEY SAID I CAN NEVER DO MANUAL LABOR WORK AGAIN!!!!!!SO THEY DECIDED I COULD GO TO SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING,OR ACCOUNTING.I PICK COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING.ITS BEEN THREE MONTHS AND STILL HAVENT BEEN TO SCHOOL.THERES A LOT IM LEAVING OUT BUT ITS HARD TO REMEMBER IT ALL.OH THEY SENT ME BACK TO WORK IN JULY LAST YEAR TO RESTRICTED DUTTY NO BENDDING OR TWISTING OR PICKING UP ANYTHING OVER FIVE POUNDS.SO I WORKED FOR SIX MONTHS THEN MY BOSS FIRED ME HE TOLD ME THAT IT WAS GOING TO GET TO COLD FOR ME TO BE OUT THERE AND I SHOULD GO HOME AND DRAW UNIMPLOYMENT BUT HE DIDNT BOTHER TO TELL ME HE ONLY PAID ENOUGH IN ON ME TO DRAW 22.00 A WEEK FOR FIVE MONTHS.NOW I MADE 616.00 A WEEK HOW IN THE WORL DO YOU WORK FOR SOMEONE FOR TWOO YEARS MAKING THAT MUCH AND YOU CAN ONLY DRAW 22.00 A WEEK?PLUS THE HOLE TIME I WAS BACK HE WAS TRYING TO GET ME TO QUIT BY GETTING IN MY FACE TO WERE I WOULD HIT HIM.SEE IM 6 FEET 230 NOT FAT AND NOBODY GETS IN MY FACE AND HE NEVER DID UNTIL I GOT HURT HIM AND HIS SON DID BUT I KEPT COOL SO FINALY HE FIGUERED OUT A WAY TO FIRE ME AND NOT GET IN TROUBLE HOW I DONT NO BUT HE DID.CAUSE MY LAWYER TOLD ME AT THE BEGGING IF HE FIRED ME WE WOULD SUE HIM BUT NOTGHING HAPPENED.SO THATS ABOUT ALL I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW BUT ITS BEEN REAL HARD ON ME AND MY FAMILY MY WIFE AND KIDS.MY WIFE HAD TO GET A JOB AND WERE BARELY MAKING IT RIGHT NOW.DUDE SOMETIMES I WONDER WHY WHY ME WHAT DID I EVER DO TO DESIRVE THIS.WELL I GOING TO GO IF I REMEMBER ANY MORE ILL LET YOU NO K LATER DUDE

JASON DOUGLAS