OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14521348
THE L.E. MYERS CO.
HOMER, IL·
Event description
FALL FROM AERIAL LIFT
Investigation abstract
A power line worker was in an aerial lift, working on an overhead power line. Th e guard for the aerial lift's upper controls was broken, and a shield wire that was lying across the bucket activated them. This caused the lower boom to rise, which in turn strained the leveling rods. The bucket flipped to a horizontal pos ition; and the employee, who was not wearing any personal fall protection equipm ent, fell out. He fell about 56 feet and struck his head on the rear passenger-s ide outrigger. He died of head injuries sustained in the fall.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Electrical power installers and repairers (577)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.