OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14379044

BURN,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,ELECTRIC SHOCK,E GI IB,FOOT,SCAFFOLD

1985-06-26T00:00:00

Event: BURN,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,ELECTRIC SHOCK,E GI IB,FOOT,SCAFFOLD
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14379044
Report ID: 524500

Event description

ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU SCAFFOLD

Investigation abstract

An employer and two employees were moving a scaffold so that they could paint a light pole. As they were doing this, the scaffold contacted an overhead power li ne. The employer was electrocuted. The two employees received electric shocks. O ne of them was hospitalized with burns to his foot. The other one was treated at a hospital and released. (The two injured employees were not listed on injury l ines on the original form.)

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 24 M

Nature of injury
10

Part of body
4

Event type
12

Source
15

Occupation code
579

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
8

Task assigned
1

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