An electric pole surveyor in Australia had a miraculous escape when he suffered only partial burns on being hit by a power surge of 12,700 volts.
The 35-year-old unidentified man suffered partial burns to about 20 per cent of his body and was shifted to a hospital in Brisbane.
"It's believed the patient from Rockhampton was a surveyor and had pulled over on the side of the road," Herald Sun quoted an official as saying.
"He had taken a pole, and it accidentally hit an overhead power line sending 12,700 volts through him."