OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14400576
HEAD,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,DRAGGED,AUTOMOBILE,LANYARD,ENTANGLED,INATTENTION
Event description
LANYARD CAUGHT BY CAR, EMPLOYEE DRAGGED ON STREET
Investigation abstract
AN APPRENTICE LINEMAN HAD DESCENDED A UTILITY POLE AND CROSSED A DIVIDED STREET OPEN TO PUBLIC TRAFFIC. THE EMPLOYEE ALLOWED THE HAND LINE TO TRAIL BEHIND HIM W HILE CROSSING THE STREET. AN AUTOMOBILE APPROACHED FROM THE SOUTH AND ENGAGED TH E END OF THE ROPE LYING IN THE STREET. THE OTHER END OF THE ROPE, WITH BLOCK AND HOOK ATTACHED, WAS HOOKED ONTO THE EMPLOYEE'S SAFETY BELT. HE WAS KILLED WHILE BEING DRAGGED THROUGH THE STREET BY STRIKING HIS HEAD ON THE STREET.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 22
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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