OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14240519
E GI III,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,HAND TOOL,PAINTER
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CHALK LINE
Investigation abstract
An employee had positioned an aluminum ladder against a sign at a service statio n. He climbed the ladder to the top of the sign. He was about 8.5 meters (28 fee t) above the ground, getting ready to paint a 50-millimeter (2-inch) border arou nd the sign. (He had painted the rest of the sign about 3 weeks earlier.) He was applying a chalk line to the sign so that the edge of the border would be strai ght. Apparently, the wind blew his chalk line into the neutral conductor of an o verhead power line. As he was trying to free his chalk line, it contacted a phas e conductor, and the employee was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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