OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14250450
HARGETT'S TELEPHONE CONTRACTORS INC
DILLSBORO, NC·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
A crew working for a telephone line contractor was using a derrick truck near a 7200-volt overhead power line. While the crew was working, the boom on the derri ck truck contacted the power line. One of the telephone line workers on the crew was holding onto a guy that apparently was touching an outrigger on the truck. He was electrocuted. Two other employees on the crew, the truck operator and ano ther line worker, received electric shocks and burns. They were hospitalized at a burn center.
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 527
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 527
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 527
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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