OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14200521
BARRETT BUSINESS SERVICES, INC.
BEL AIR, MD·
Event description
EYE FLASH - LOOKED AT ELECTRIC ARC
Investigation abstract
An employee of a temporary employment service was a flagger on a line-clearance her injury. tree-trimming job performed jointly by an electric utility and a tree service fi rm. The employees were trimming trees around a 33-kilovolt overhead power line l ocated 12.2 meters above the ground. The tree-trimming crew was working from a 1 9.8-meter-high HiRanger aerial lift. The crew noticed that a 20-millimeter-diame ter, 1.2-meter-long branch had fallen out of the tree onto the power line. The l ines faulted before the branch could be removed and a massive electric arc ensue d because of a recloser malfunction. The flagger, who was looking at the branch when the fault occurred, sustained an eye flash injury. She was hospitalized for
Victims (3)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 39 F
- Nature of injury
- 19
- Part of body
- 8
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 12
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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