OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14414379
SIOUXLAND SCALE SERVICE, INC.
NELIGH, NE·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD LINE
Investigation abstract
TWO EMPLOYEES WERE REMOVING FORMS FROM A SCALE PIT. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES WAS OPE RATING A TRUCK CRANE, AND THE OTHER WAS IN THE PIT HOOKING THE FORMS TO THE LOAD LINE. AS THE FORMS WERE BEING LIFTED, THE EMPLOYEE WHO HAD HOOKED THE FORMS NOT ICED SOME NAILS IN THEM THAT HAD TO BE REMOVED. HE MOTIONED TO THE CRANE OPERATO R TO LOWER THE FORMS SO THAT THE NAILS COULD BE REMOVED. THE LOAD LINE THEN CONT ACTED A 24-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. BOTH EMPLOYEES RECEIVED ELECTRIC SHOCKS --THE CRANE OPERATOR WAS ELECTROCUTED, AND THE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN BACK IN TO THE PIT.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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