A SURVEYOR is in hospital after surviving being accidentally hit by 12,700 volts of electricity in southwest Queensland.
An RACQ CareFlight spokesman said they were called to Miles Hospital yesterday morning to airlift a 35-year-old male patient who had been electrocuted.
"It's believed the patient from Rockhampton was a surveyor and had pulled over on the side of the road about 30km southwest of Miles," the spokesman said.
"He had taken a pole off the roof of his vehicle and it accidentally hit an overhead power line sending 12,700 volts through him."
The spokesman said the man suffered partial and full thickness burns to about 20 per cent of his body and had at least three exit wounds from the surge of electricity.
The man was airlifted to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in Brisbane yesterday afternoon where he remains in a serious but stable condition.
Originally published as Man survives 12,700-volt power surge