Narrator describes hazards of cable lashing and the need to inspect work area from ground level and at work level over the following scenes in suburban south-western neighborhood; A man climbs down a pole and with another man begin to perform a cable lashing in which they pull a cylindrical lasher across wires; the lasher gets stuck on in a tree; the men tug on rope attached to lasher; wires oscillate (dramatic organ music) and touch resulting in a loud shock; Cut to another man approaching a pole in front of a house; the man makes inspection at ground level/ looks up; man climbs pole; close-up of a down guide in contact with a a high tension lead (a hazard); the man prepares to work, touches electrical box; there's a loud shock; man collapses in harness; narrator informs viewer that the lineman is dead.