OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1000231
STEEL BEAM,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,E GI IA,STEEL ERECTION,ELECTRIC SHOCK,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD
Investigation abstract
AN IRONWORKER WAS INSTALLING STRUCTURAL STEEL IN AN OFFICE ADDITION. HE WAS STAN VED A BURN ON HIS ARM. (THE REPORT DID NOT STATE WHAT HE WAS DOING OR HOW HE REC EIVED THIS INJURY.) DING ON A BRICK WALL, GUIDING STEEL MEMBERS INTO PLACE. THE STEEL WAS BEING RAIS ED INTO POSITION BY A MOBILE TRUCK CRANE, WHICH WAS SET UP BENEATH A 24-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. FOUR STEEL MEMBERS HAD BEEN PLACED WHEN THE FOREMAN RECEIV ED A RADIO CALL. HE INSTRUCTED THE CRANE OPERATOR AND THE IRON WORKER TO STOP. H OWEVER, AS HE WALKED TO THE CAB OF THE CRANE, A BAR JOIST WAS LIFTED AND CONTACT ED THE OVERHEAD LINE. THE IRONWORKER, WHO WAS GUIDING THE BAR JOIST INTO PLACE, RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK, WHICH CAUSED HIM TO FALL 14 FEET, 3 INCHES TO THE CO NCRETE. HE RECEIVED HEAD INJURIES, WHICH CAUSED HIS DEATH. A SECOND WORKER RECEI
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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