OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14348049
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,E GI VII,ELECTROCUTED,GUY,TRAILER,TRUCK DRIVER
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU GUY
Investigation abstract
An employee was closing the left rear door on the trailer of a tractor-trailer r ig he had been driving. The door contacted a guy for a utility pole. The guy con tacted a 7200-volt (phase-to-ground) overhead power line, and the employee was e lectrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 7
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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