OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14251011
ISENHOUR BRICK & TILE CO., INC.
EAST SPENCER, NC·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
A TRUCK DRIVER FOR A BRICK MANUFACTURER WAS MOVING BRICKS. THE EMPLOYEE WAS USIN G A UNITED STATES TRUCK CRANE JIFFY BOOM MOUNTED ON A 1987 INTERNATIONAL TRUCK & TRAILER MODEL F-2674 TRUCK TO MOVE THE BRICKS. THE TRUCK HAD A GROSS VEHICLE WE IGHT CAPACITY OF 80,000 POUNDS. THE BOOM HAD A WEIGHT CAPACITY OF 5000 POUNDS AN D WAS 25 FEET LONG FROM THE PIVOT POINT TO ITS TIP. THE EMPLOYEE, WHO WAS HOLDIN G THE BOOM CONTROL BOX IN HIS HAND, GUIDED THE BOOM INTO CONTACT WITH A 7200-VOL T OVERHEAD POWER LINE AND WAS ELECTROCUTED. THE POWER LINE RIGHT OF WAY HAD BEEN CLEARED, AND A UTILITY POLE FOR THE LINE WAS LOCATED ABOUT 75 FEET FROM THE TRU CK.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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