Witness recounts horror as tradie with critical burns named The tradie fighting for life with severe electrical burns after a horror workplace accident on the Gold Coast has been identified as a father of two.
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Subscriber only He is James Jimmy Badcock, 34, a father of two, including a new baby girl, and a keen surfer originally from the Sunshine Coast. Mr Badcock and a colleague were installing solar panels at an Ashmore shopping centre on Tuesday when they suffered severe electrical burns. He remains in a critical but stable condition in the burns unit in the Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital.