OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14384259
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,E C,LOAD LINE,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD LINE
Investigation abstract
Some employees were working on a lane of interstate highway that was under const ruction. A truck crane with a suspended load was backing across a bridge. An emp loyee was walking alongside the spreader beam, guiding it. The load line contact ed a 7200-volt (phase-to-ground), single-phase overhead power line that passed o ver the highway, and the employee guiding the load was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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