“I really do love my job. I get to go out and do what I love,” Weems told a cameraperson. “And to be able to help others...you can’t beat it.” He goes on to describe what it’s like to be a lineman: hard days of dangerous work. But that he wouldn’t change it.

A city in Georgia is mourning the loss of a lineman after a workplace injury. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, lineman Eric Weems died and another, Trent Granger, was injured while working on a project in Griffin, Ga., in the morning hours, according to a Facebook post by city officials.

SPALDING COUNTY, Ga. — A lineman died and another one was injured after an equipment failure at a power project in downtown Griffin. The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office told Channel 2 Action News that two linemen were working on a power project when they were injured. Deputies said one of the linemen died on the scene.

We covered before how a father and high-profile CEO along with his teenage daughter were killed in a freak bulldozer accident in a Utah canyon during the summer. Now, new information in that case indicates the driver who was towing that bulldozer lied to police and is now facing felony charges as a result.