OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14516520
HAINES CITY CITRUS GROWERS ASSOCIATION
HAINES CITY, FL·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU METAL PIPE
Investigation abstract
A CREW OF EMPLOYEES WAS SETTING UP IRRIGATION SPRINKLERS IN AN ORANGE GROVE. THE Y WERE LAYING WATER PIPES ON THE GROUND AND MOUNTING THE SPRINKLERS ATOP THEM. T HE ALUMINUM WATER PIPES WERE 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND CAME IN 20- AND 30-FOOT LE NGTHS. FROM TIME TO TIME DURING THE INSTALLATION OF THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM, DIRT AND OTHER DEBRIS WOULD ACCUMULATE INSIDE THE PIPES. TO REMOVE THE DEBRIS, AN EMP LOYEE WOULD LIFT THE CLOGGED PIPE INTO A VERTICAL POSITION AND HIT IT WITH A TOO L. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES WAS DOING THIS TO A 30-FOOT LENGTH OF PIPE AND BROUGHT I T INTO CONTACT WITH A 7000-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. (THE POWER LINE SUPPLIED TH E WATER PUMP FOR THE ORANGE GROVE.) THE EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 65 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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