OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14503627
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,MANHOLE,E GI IC,METAL PIPE,SCAFFOLD
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU METAL PIPE
Investigation abstract
A WORK CREW WAS REPAIRING A SEWER PIPE. THE WERE REMOVING A 4-INCH-DIAMETER FLEX IBLE METAL PIPE FROM A SEWER LINE. THEY WERE PULLING IT OUT OF A MANHOLE, THROUG H THE MANHOLE OPENING. A TUBULAR WELDED FRAME SCAFFOLD HAD BEEN ERECTED ABOVE TH E OPENING, AT A HEIGHT OF 24 FEET, 3 INCHES, AND ADJACENT TO A 7200-VOLT OVERHEA D POWER LINE. ONE OF THE WORKERS WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND, PULLING UP THE SLAC K IN THE PIPE AS IT WAS BEING REMOVED FROM THE MANHOLE. HE WAS ELECTROCUTED WHEN THE PIPE CONTACTED THE OVERHEAD LINE.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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