OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14516744
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,E C,RIGGING,ELECTROCUTED,LOAD LINE,SLING,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU SLING
Investigation abstract
ON A CLOUDY, HOT, HUMID DAY, A WORK CREW WAS CUTTING CEMENT TEST PILINGS AT A CO NSTRUCTION SITE. AN INGERSOLL-RAND AIR CENTER 185/90 AIR COMPRESSOR USED IN THE OPERATION WAS BEING MOVED BY A GALION DRESSER 15-TON CRANE. THE COMPRESSOR WAS S USPENDED FROM THE CRANE'S LOAD LINE BY ONE LEG OF A FOUR-LEG WIRE ROPE SLING. A TRUCK DRIVER/MECHANIC WAS WALKING ALONGSIDE THE AIR COMPRESSOR, GUIDING IT AS IT WAS BEING MOVED BY THE CRANE. THE EMPLOYEE HAD HIS LEFT HAND ON THE HITCH ATTAC HED TO THE AIR COMPRESSOR WHEN ONE OF THE LOOSE LEGS OF THE SLING CONTACTED AN O VERHEAD POWER LINE. THE EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 2
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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