OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14402812
HEART,ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,HEART ATTACK,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,UTILITY POLE
Event description
POSSIBLE ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
An electric utility was improving five service drops on a class 5 utility pole. the form was prepared, but the preliminary autopsy reported that the employee ha d a severely diseased heart.) As part of this project, a 47-year-old power line worker was connecting one of t he service drops to a tail he had prepared. He had installed two of the conducto rs onto the tail with compression-type tap connectors and had put the third conn ector on the tail before installing the service conductor. (None of the three co nnectors was insulated.) As the employee repositioned himself on the pole to pic k up the service conductor, he might have contacted one of the connectors and re ceived an electric shock. The employee died either from electrocution or from a heart attack. (The medical examiner had not ruled on cause of death at the time
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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