OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14521470
FRACTURE,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ABRASIVE BLASTING,ELECTROCUTED,E C,ELECTRIC SHOCK,FALL,STRUCK BY,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
THE OWNER OF A COMPANY AND ONE OF HIS EMPLOYEES WERE ABRASIVE BLASTING A BUILDIN A SECOND EMPLOYEE WAS INJURED WHEN HE FELL FROM THE BOOM OF THE AERIAL LIFT AS H E WAS ATTEMPTING TO RESCUE THE INJURED PERSONS IN THE LIFT. HIS FALL RESULTED IN MULTIPLE FRACTURES. BOTH EMPLOYEES WERE HOSPITALIZED FOR THEIR INJURIES. G EXTERIOR FROM A JLG AERIAL LIFT. ALTHOUGH THIS PORTION OF THE JOB WOULD PLACE THE AERIAL LIFT NEAR A 7200-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE, THE EMPLOYER PROCEEDED TO RAISE THE LIFT RATHER THAN DELAY THE JOB WAITING FOR THE ELECTRIC UTILITY TO GUA RD THE LINES. DURING THE ABRASIVE BLASTING OPERATION, THE EMPLOYER OR THE AERIAL LIFT BUCKET CONTACTED THE POWER LINE; AND THE EMPLOYER, WHO WAS HOLDING THE BLA STING NOZZLE WAS ELECTROCUTED. THE EMPLOYEE IN THE LIFT RECEIVED A LESSER ELECTR IC SHOCK, BUT WAS INJURED MORE SEVERELY WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY THE ABRASIVE BLAST AS THE EMPLOYER TURNED TOWARD THE EMPLOYEE WITH THE EQUIPMENT STILL OPERATING.
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 4
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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#2 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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#3 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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