OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14300933
ALOHA PAINTING CO INC
KANEOHE, HI·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
An employee was on a swinging scaffold, painting a four-story building. The empl oyee did not realize that the top guardrail of the scaffold was at the same leve l and almost parallel to an overhead power line. The power line was only about 3 05 millimeters away from the scaffold. While he was bending over, the employee i nadvertently grabbed the power line with his left hand instead of the guardrail. The employee received an electric shock and sustained second-degree burns on hi s index, middle, and ring fingers.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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