OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14340293
POLK CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
GULFPORT, MS·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU RAIN GUTTER
Investigation abstract
SOME EMPLOYEES WERE LIFTING AN 18-FOOT LENGTH OF METAL RAIN GUTTER TO AN EMPLOYE E ON A METAL ROOF. THE ROOF, WHICH WAS 25 FEET OFF THE GROUND, WAS 6 FEET, 3 INC HES FROM A 13.2-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. EITHER THE EMPLOYEE ON THE ROOF SW UNG THE GUTTER INTO THE OVERHEAD LINE, OR THE WIND BLEW THE GUTTER INTO THE LINE . AS A RESULT OF THE POWER LINE CONTACT, THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED ELECTRIC SHOCK, W HICH CAUSED HIM TO LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE DIED 6 DAYS LATER.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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