Power Line Workers in High Demand Fueled by Wave of Retirements, Industry Growth

Rewards of the job far outweigh the risks, employees say

A power line worker at Midwest Energy in Hays, Kansas, rides in a utility vehicle bucket to work on a pole 40 feet off the ground in Ellis County, Kansas, on Jan. 4, 2023. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

HAYS, Kansas—The view from a Midwest Energy bucket truck 62 feet above the barren corn fields in Ellis County, Kansas, isn’t for the faint of heart or height in early January.

Steady nerves and hands are an absolute must to work on utility poles that stretch for miles in every direction.