Vision Net to provide streaming video so injured Malta man can watch daughters’ graduation

May 15, 2008

A Malta man who is hospitalized in a Utah burn unit will be able to see his twin daughters graduate from high school this weekend via streaming video, courtesy of a Montana-based Vision Net http://www.vision.net video conferencing company.

Rick Starkey suffered second- and third-degree burns over 40 percent of his body on April 15. He sustained a 14,400 volt electric shock when he accidentally contacted a live wire while working to restore power after a car struck a utility pole on the Fort Belknap Reservation.

Starkey, who has worked for Big Flat Electric Co-op for 27 years, is hospitalized at the University of Utah’s burn center in Salt Lake City.

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