Upon receiving the call from Edward Belhumer, Dale Gatien a lead lineman for UPPCO was dispatched at 11:21 on March 8, 2013. Mr. Gatien has been a lead lineman for the company for approximately four years. Prior to that time, he was a lineman. Mr. Gatien has his service truck and when he arrived, he could see a fallen tree which had pulled apart the neutral wire. Mr. Gatien put on his emergency lights, put out cones to prevent traffic from traveling on the road and went up to the house and told Mr. Belhumer to open his main. He pulled the electrical meteor at the residence and “blanked” it. He informed the customer that he had to go back to the shop to get a plow truck to plow into the pole. Mr. Gatien testified that he did have a hard time
