OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14240493
E GI III,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,TREE LIMB,ELECTROCUTED,TREE,TREE TRIMMING
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
An employee was trimming branches from a tree. He was using an aluminum pole saw to cut the branches. The employee was electrocuted when he contacted a 12-kilov olt overhead power line that ran through the tree.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 495
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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