It seems like bucket trucks are always in the news. Whether it’s an accident involving a bucket truck or a story about bucket truck rides at the carnival, you can pretty much always find some news involving bucket trucks. The past few weeks, there have been several stories to break involving utility bucket trucks. Here’s more about those:

On December 30, a Pacific Power worker suffered serious injuries after “An agitated and incoherent woman approached his vehicle, entered the cab, and attempted to drive away” in the utility bucket truck the worker was in. The worker attempted several time to stop the woman from starting the utility bucket truck through a remote kill switch from the bucket, but the woman was finally successful in starting the vehicle and upon doing so, sped off it it. The bucket truck has since been found approximately 200 miles away from the scene in Happy Camp, CA., but the woman is still at large. She’s been described as a Native American woman missing two front teeth. There is currently a $10,000 reward for information regarding the woman’s whereabouts.

From earlier in December, another story involves two men employed by an Ohio Cable Company using their company’s bucket truck to steal copper wire from a power line. They managed to steal a copper wire that stretch to be 1/2 mile long and worth about eight grand. This just happened recently in a neighboring town and cause power outages.

Just yesterday, a utility bucket truck overturned near Chicago, in Oak Lawn, IL to be exact. There was a city worker using the bucket truck for Christmas decorations. It hasn’t been determined, the cause of the overturned truck, but sources reports that “The rear stabiliser spread certainly looks to be insufficient on their own for a boom of this size”, per Vertikal.net. You can view pictures at their website. The OSHA is still investigating.