OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14481006
E GI III,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,ELECTRIC SHOCK,SCAFFOLD
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
Two employees were dismantling a tubular welded scaffold. As the two workers wer e descending the scaffold, one of them contacted a 2800-volt overhead power line , received an electric shock, and could not let go of the conductor. His coworke r tried to free him, but the coworker also received an electric shock. The cowor ker left to get a board to knock the power line loose. When he returned with the board, the conductor had broken, and the injured employee had fallen to the gro und. He had been electrocuted. The coworker was hospitalized for observation and was discharged the next day. (The injured coworker was not listed on an injury line on the original form.)
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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