OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14255954
JACKSON & ASSOCIATES INC
PARKTON, NC·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WITH A LINE-CLEARANCE TREE-TRIMMING CREW WAS ELECTROCUTED WHEN THE B OOM OF AN AERIAL LIFT CONTACTED A 7200-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. HE HAD BEEN TOU CHING THE SIDE OF THE AERIAL LIFT TRUCK WHEN THE EMPLOYEE IN THE BUCKET BROUGHT THE BOOM INTO CONTACT WITH THE POWER LINE.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 495
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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