OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14519227
HIGHLINES CONSTRUCTION CO
TALISHEEK, LA·
Event description
Employee killed by falling conductor-stringing block
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working with a four-man crew erecting 65 ft high steel electric transmission towers. A framing crew usually put the towers together on the groun d with crossarm strings of insulators, and conductor-stringing blocks on the end s of the insulators (bales). There was a ball and socket connector on top of the stringing block and on the bottom of the bales that should have been secured wi th a stainless steel cotter key. Instead, it was held in place with black electr ical tape. While the crew was erecting a tower, a conductor-stringing block fell approximately 65 ft, striking Employee #1 on the head and killing him
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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