OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14426829
MENA CABLE CONSTRUCTION
LITTLETON, CO·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
Investigation abstract
A line of storms passed through an area where some employees were working. They stopped and went inside a truck for lunch. After they finished lunch and the sto rm had passed, one employee got out of the truck and began playing a game before he returned to work. Lightning struck the employee on the head and killed him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 32
- Occupation code
- 523
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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