Man loses genitals in electrical mishap, alcohol involvement suspected


A Talladega man admitted himself to hospital after suffering burns to more than 90% of his body in an Alabama Power substation early Friday morning.

Police Chief Alan Watson speculated that Willie Eugene Lewis scaled the fence around 2 a.m. Friday and began climbing onto some equipment and holding onto it with both of his hands. As could be predicted, something went terribly wrong.

The horrific burns that Lewis sustained were inflicted by 44,000 volts of electricity passing through his body. The current burned the clothes off his back and burned off his genitals. Staff at the Citizens Baptist Medical Center, which he walked to unassisted, reported his injuries to police.

Thus far, police have been unable to rule out the involvement of alcohol. [The Daily Home]

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