OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14511497
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,UTILITY POLE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEES OF A POWER LINE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR WERE SETTING NEW POLES FOR OVE DED THESE INSTRUCTIONS AND CLIMBED THE NEW POLE. THE APPRENTICE WARNED HIM THAT HE WAS TOO CLOSE TO THE ENERGIZED PRIMARY LINES ON THE OLD POLE. THE APPRENTICE WENT UP IN THE AERIAL LIFT TO TAKE A RUBBER SLEEVE AND GLOVES TO HIM. AS THE LIN EMAN WAS PUTTING THE SLEEVE ON THE EXISTING LINE, THE SLEEVE SLIPPED; AND HE CON TACTED A 12.5-KILOVOLT LINE. RHEAD POWER LINES AND STRINGING NEW CONDUCTORS ON THE POLES TO REPLACE THE EXIST ING LINES. THE EXISTING SECONDARY AND COMMUNICATIONS CONDUCTORS WERE ALSO BEING TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW POLES. A NEW POLE HAD BEEN SET NEXT TO AN OLD ONE. THE NE W PRIMARY AND NEUTRAL LINES HAD BEEN STRUNG ON THE NEW POLE, BUT HAD NOT BEEN EN ERGIZED. THE OLD POLE STILL HAD PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TELEPHONE, AND CABLE TELEVIS ION LINES ATTACHED TO IT. A JOURNEYMAN LINEMAN AND AN APPRENTICE WERE TO ATTACH A COPPER GROUND WIRE TO THE NEUTRAL LINE ON THE NEW POLE. THE EMPLOYEES HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED TO WORK THIS POLE FROM AN AERIAL LIFT. HOWEVER, THE LINEMAN DISREGAR
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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