OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14466205
TEXAS POWER & LIGHT, DIV. OF TEXAS UTILITIES
IRVING, TX·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD POWER LINES
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS RESTORING ELECTRIC POWER TO A RESIDENCE THAT WAS WITHOUT POWER B ECAUSE A TRANSFORMER HAD BLOWN OUT. THE EMPLOYEE DID NOT MAKE ANY CHECKS TO BE S URE ALL LINES WERE DEENERGIZED. HIS SUPERVISOR HAD ALSO NOT DETERMINED IF ALL TH E LINES WERE DEENGERGIZED, NOR HAD HE INFORMED THE EMPLOYEE OF WHAT WORK HAD BEE N PREVIOSLY DONE ON THE LINES OR THE TRANSFORMER. THE EMPLOYEE CLIMBED A UTILITY POLE TO BEGIN WORK. WHEN HE TOUCHED OVERHEAD POWER LINES AT THE TRANSFORMER, HE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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