OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14495816
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,E PTD,SUBSTATION,ELECTRIC SHOCK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK AND FALL - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
THREE EMPLOYEES WERE INSTALLING CONDUCTOR BRACKETS ONTO A BRACKET ASSEMBLY IN A ED EITHER FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN THE FALL OR FROM ELECTROCUTION. SUBSTATION. THE ASSEMBLY WAS 57 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND. BEFORE INSTALLING THE NEW BRACKETS, THE EMPLOYEES HAD TO EXAMINE THE MOUNTING OF A PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED B RACKET, FROM A POSITION THAT WAS INACCESSIBLE FROM THE AERIAL LIFT THE EMPLOYEES WERE USING. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES LEFT THE AERIAL LIFT AND CLIMBED THE STRUCTURE IN THE SUBSTATION TO PERFORM THIS EXAMINATION. THE BRACKET ASSEMBLY BEING INSPE CTED WAS THE THIRD FROM THE TOP (ONE ABOVE THE WORKING LEVEL), WAS 67 FEET FROM THE GROUND, AND SUPPORTED LINES ENERGIZED AT 7620 VOLTS. AS HE WAS MAKING THE EX AMINATION, THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK AND FELL TO THE GROUND. HE DI
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 2
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