OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14383020
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,E C,DUMP TRUCK,DUMP TRUCK BED
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU DUMP BED
Investigation abstract
A ROAD CONSTRUCTION FIRM WAS HIRED TO WIDEN THE SHOULDERS OF A PAVED, TWO-LANE R EAD LINES AND HAD ASSIGNED AN EMPLOYEE TO CHECK FOR THE PRESENCE OF THE LINES AN D TO DIRECT THE TRUCK DRIVERS IN RAISING AND LOWERING THEIR DUMP BEDS. UNFORTUNA TELY, THE TRUCK DRIVER WHO WAS ELECTROCUTED WAS OUT OF SIGHT OF THE REST OF THE SPREADING CREW. URAL ROAD. THE EMPLOYEES AT THE SITE WERE SCRAPING THE MATERIAL OFF THE OLD SHOU LDER AND WERE SPREADING AND ROLLING NEW MATERIAL (SAND AND GRAVEL). A TRUCK DRIV ER EMPLOYED BY THIS FIRM HAD DELIVERED A LOAD OF MATERIAL TO THE SITE. (IT WAS H IS FOURTH LOAD OF THE DAY.) AFTER DUMPING HIS LOAD, HE LOWERED THE BED OF HIS DU MP TRUCK AND DROVE INTO A NEARBY PRIVATE DRIVEWAY TO CLEAN OFF THE APRON OF THE TRUCK AND TO TURN AROUND. HE RAISED THE DUMP BED TO FACILITATE CLEANING THE APRO N, AND IT CONTACTED A 7200-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. WHEN HE GOT OUT OF THE TRUC K, HE WAS ELECTROCUTED. THE COMPANY HAD RECOGNIZED THE HAZARD POSED BY THE OVERH
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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