OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14412498
L.W.K. ELECTRICAL CO., INC.
HOUSTON, TX·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU POLE GROUND
Investigation abstract
A power line crew was setting utility poles. The crew was using an electric line contact occurred, was electrocuted. truck with a boom to hoist a replacement pole next to an existing pole. The emp loyees were setting the new pole between two phase conductors of a three-phase, 7200-volt-to-ground overhead power line. The employees had put rubber insulating line hose on the middle phase conductor and had installed a No. 4 solid copper ground wire on the pole. As the line truck was positioning the pole between the phase conductors, the ground wire on the pole contacted an uninsulated portion o f the overhead line. One of the employees on the crew was apparently getting a d rink of water by the truck. The employee, who had one hand on the truck when the
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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