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LightningDenver, Colorado

June 7, 1997 · NOAA Storm Events record

Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
1
Property damage
Area
Denver

Event narrative (NOAA)

Two plumbers were injured, one critically, when lightning struck a pipe they were working on in a building under construction. The bolt apparently hit one man in the hand, it then passed through his chest and struck the other worker. The critically injured man died a few days later.

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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.

Lightning — Denver, Colorado, June 7, 1997 | DisasterAtlasUSA