OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14394100

LOG LOADER,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,ELECTROCUTED,E GI IA

1987-10-22T00:00:00

Event: LOG LOADER,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,ELECTROCUTED,E GI IA
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14394100
Report ID: 625700

Event description

ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM

Investigation abstract

An employee was operating a Caterpillar pulpwood loader (Model No. V-300, Serial No. 25V233) at a crossroads yard. He was unloading bunks of pulpwood logs from a truck and was placing them beneath a 14.4-kilovolt overhead power line. The em ployee had positioned three bunks and lifted the mast of the loader to clear the lifting chains. The loader mast contacted the power line, energizing the loader . The employee was electrocuted, apparently as he stepped off the loader.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 45 M

Nature of injury
10

Part of body
4

Event type
13

Source
15

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.