OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14222921
PROTECTIVE GROUNDING,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,SUBSTATION,INDUCED CURRENT
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU JUMPER
Investigation abstract
Two power line workers were removing three grounding jumpers from an overhead po nd jumper was energized through induced current from nearby lines. When the just -removed clamp touched the power line worker's body, he was electrocuted. wer line. The employees were 30 meters above the ground on the upper bridge of t he southeastern towers of a 345-kilovolt switchyard. The line had been deenergiz ed since 10:14 AM that day, and they were removing the jumpers as the last step before the line was reenergized. After removing a grounding jumper clamp from a corona ring, one of the power line workers coiled the 8.8-kilogram jumper around his shoulder. As he was removing the grounding clamp attached to the tower at t he other end of the 6.7-meter-long jumper, the jumper cable slipped from his sho ulder and came too close to another jumper positioned 3.4 meters below. The seco
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 555
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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