OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14440572
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,E GI IA,BOOM,CRANE BOOM,ELECTROCUTED,TRUCK,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU TRUCK
Investigation abstract
THREE EMPLOYEES WERE LOADING PIPE ONTO A TRUCK. THEY HAD MOVED THEIR OPERATION F HE TRUCK. THE CRANE BOOM CONTACTED A 13.8-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE, KNOCKING IT DOWN ONTO THE TRUCK. THE CRANE OPERATOR AND THE EMPLOYEE ON THE GROUND SAFEL Y CLEARED THE IMMEDIATE AREA. THE TRUCK DRIVER, UNFORTUNATELY, CLIMBED OFF OF TH E BED OF THE TRUCK. HE HAD HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE PIPE ON THE TRUCK; AND, WHEN HI S LEFT FOOT TOUCHED THE GROUND, HE WAS ELECTROCUTED. ROM ONE SITE TO ANOTHER, WHERE THE PIPE HAD BEEN STACKED NEAR A SMELTER STACK. O NE OF THE EMPLOYEES OPERATED THE CRANE THEY WERE USING TO LOAD THE PIPE. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE STAYED ON THE GROUND AND GUIDED THE PIPE AS IT WAS PICKED UP FROM THE PILE AND PLACED ONTO THE TRUCK. THE LAST EMPLOYEE DROVE THE TRUCK AND, WHILE STA NDING ON THE BED OF THE TRUCK, HELPED GUIDE THE PIPE ONTO THE TRUCK. THE CHANGE IN LOADING SITES AND THE SUBSEQUENT LOADING OF THE PIPE TOOK PLACE IN DARKNESS, WITH LIGHTS FROM A CAR OF ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES PROVIDING ILLUMINATION. THE CRANE OPERATOR LIFTED THE PIPE FROM THE PILE AND SWUNG THE BOOM OF THE CRANE TOWARD T
Victims (5)
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 14
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#983 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#984 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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