OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14301584
ENCHANTMENT TREE & SPRINKLER SERVICE
MIMBRES, NM·
Event description
EMPLOYEE DIED FROM AN OVERHEAD POWER LINE
Investigation abstract
An employee was trimming branches while standing on a limb of an alligator junip er. He was working at a height of about 25 feet. The edge of the limb contacted a 14.4 kilovolt overhead power line. The employee was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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