OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14327944
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
A POWER LINE CREW WAS REPLACING A 120-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. AS PART OF THIS JOB, AN APPRENTICE POWER LINE WORKER WAS WORKING FROM THE BUCKET OF AN AERIAL LI FT, RUNNING A FIBER ROPE THROUGH BLOCKS SUSPENDED ON UTILITY POLES. THE APPRENTI CE WAS ELECTROCUTED WHEN HE CONTACTED THE EXISTING 120-VOLT POWER LINE.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.