OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14300933

BURN,E GI III,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTRIC SHOCK,PAINTER,SCAFFOLD

1986-08-06T00:00:00

Event: BURN,E GI III,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTRIC SHOCK,PAINTER,SCAFFOLD
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14300933
Report ID: 951510

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

#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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