Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 71,450Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14212625

SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS ELECTRIC COOP., INC.

Event
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, POWER LINE WORKER, ELECTROCUTED, E PTD, ELEC UTILITY WORK, UTILITY POLE
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#103255493
Employer profile
SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS ELECTRIC COOP., INC.
Summary number
14212625
Report ID
627100

Event description

ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE

Investigation abstract

AN EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A UTILITITY POLE. THE EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING INSULA TING RUBBER GLOVES WHEN HE MADE HAND CONTACT WITH THE NEUTRAL CONDUCTOR OF A 762 0-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. HE WAS ELECTROCUTED.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 34 M

    Nature of injury
    10
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    1
    Source
    15
    Occupation code
    577
    Human factor
    20
    Environmental factor
    6
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.