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CASE STUDY

Steel Pole Forensic Investigation

Osmose inspected a catastrophic incident causing thousands of customers to lose power on one of the coldest nights of the year.

The Situation

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In 2015, one of Osmose’s utility partners sustained a catastrophic incident causing thousands of
customers to lose power on one of the coldest nights of the year. The outage occurred when a steel monopole snapped at its base and ultimately caused a destructive failure. The failure was a surprise to the utility for two reasons: the failure did not result from a weather event and the entire transmission line had recently undergone a visual inspection by a utility contractor.

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