OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14465561
M & M BUILDER & REPAIR SERVICE
HOUSTON, TX·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU ANGLE IRON
Investigation abstract
An employee was sitting on a steel beam about 4.6 to 5.5 meters above the ground . He was pulling up a 6.1-meter-long piece of angle iron. The employee was going to connect the angle iron to some rafters. An overhead power line was located a bout 7.6 meters above ground, 3.0 meters above the employee and about 1.5 meters away from the building. As he was handling the angle iron, it contacted the pow er line. The employee was electrocuted. (He also fell away from the building.)
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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