OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296180
ROD-BUSTER SERVICE INC.
GLEN BURNIE, MD·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD LINE
Investigation abstract
Some employees were using a Link-Belt truck crane (Model No. HC218, Serial No. 1 ned burns to their hands. They were hospitalized for their injuries. 8HB151) to unload concrete reinforcement steel from a flatbed truck. The crane h ad a main boom that was 36.7 meters (120 feet) long with a 13.7-meter-long (45-f oot-long) jib. One of the employees was standing on the bed of the truck, riggin g the skids of material to be hoisted. He asked a coworker on the ground at the rear of the truck for another sling. The coworker handed him the choker-type sli ng that was attached to the load block. As the employee took the sling, the load line of the crane contacted a 7620-volt overhead power line located 9.6 meters (31.7 feet) above the ground. Both employees received electric shocks and sustai
Victims (4)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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#2 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 849
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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