Two other men, one from Wyoming and another from Colorado, suffered third-degree burns to 70 percent of their bodies. A fourth man, also from Wyoming, suffered burns to his face.
18-year-old Ryan Beman was nearly killed in an explosion that knocked out power to 2,637 Laramie customers today.
Beman was performing maintenance on the hydraulics of an Ingersoll-Rand VR-638 lift at A-1 Rental. At 1:29 p.m., he tested the lift by raising the forks, and inadvertently contacted a power line, causing the machine to ignite...