OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14203715
BURN,UNCONSCIOUSNESS,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ROOF,ELECTRICAL,SHEET METAL,CONSTRUCTION,E C,ROOFER,ELECTRIC SHOCK
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU SHEET METAL
Investigation abstract
Two employees were installing corrugated metal on the roof of a partially comple rns to their hands and feet. They were transported to a nearby hospital, where t hey were treated and released the same day. The employees were inexperienced in hazard recognition, and one of them (employee #1) was in only his second week of this type of work. ted 15.2-meter by 42.7-meter prefabricated metal structure. The roofing material came in 0.9-meter by 9.1-meter sections. A 7200-volt overhead power line was lo cated about 150 millimeters horizontally and 1.1 meters vertically from the edge of the roof. The employees had completed about half of the roof the previous da y. As they were walking that day's first section of roofing material down the ed ge of the building, the material contacted the power line. The employees receive d electric shocks, which knocked them down and briefly rendered them unconscious . (They did not fall from the roof.) The employees sustained relatively minor bu
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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#2 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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