A sub-contractor who came within millimetres of being "vaporised" when he struck a 66,000-volt buried cable says he wanted to "smack" the contractor who told him he was fine to dig there.
Jack Peke, a drainage contractor from Wellington, was breaking concrete under the corner of Ruskin and Antigua streets in Christchurch on Thursday when he noticed what looked to be vegetable oil seeping from a cable he had struck.
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