Two Workers Electrocuted Near Ray Nixon Power Plant Identified

Two men electrocuted near the Ray Nixon Power Plant last week have been identified as Benjamin Hey and Joseph Sampedro, the El Paso County Coroner's Office said Tuesday. Hey, 25, and Sampedro, 24, were taking soil samples for an expansion of the power plant's main entrance gate when their truck hit a 12,250-volt overhead power line, said Arem Benyamin, general manager of Colorado Springs Utilities' Energy Supply Division. Hey and Sampedro died at the scene.

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