OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14485023
G & J CONSTRUCTION INC.
WILSON, NY·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD LINE
Investigation abstract
An employee was guiding a structural steel member suspended by a crane when the crane's load line contacted a 34-kilovolt overhead power line. The employee was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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