OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14375562
GILMORE BROTHERS, INC.
LAURELVILLE, OH·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CONDUCTOR
Investigation abstract
A NEW OVERHEAD POWER LINE WAS BEING INSTALLED BY A POWER LINE CONSTRUCTION CREW. A KINK DEVELOPED IN ONE OF THE CONDUCTORS, AND ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES CLIMBED A U TILITY POLE TO RELEASE THE KINK. THE NEW CONDUCTOR, WHICH WAS STRUNG NEAR AN EXI STING 72000-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE, WAS BEING PULLED BY A PICKUP TRUCK. THE EM PLOYEE ON THE POLE RELEASED THE KINK, CAUSING A WHIPPING EFFECT ON THE CONDUCTOR FROM THE TENSION PUT ON IT BY THE PICKUP TRUCK. THE NEW LINE CONTACTED THE EXIS TING LINE, AND THE EMPLOYEE ON THE POLE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 Male
- Nature of injury
- Electric Shock (10)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- SHOCK (13)
- Source of injury
- ELEC APPARAT/WIRING (15)
- Occupation
- Electrical power installers and repairers (577)
- Human factor
- MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.