OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14524037
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,OIL WELL SERVICING,OIL RIG,E GI IB
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU WIRE ROPE
Investigation abstract
A RIG OPERATOR AND HIS HELPER PARKED AN OIL RIG IN A YARD TO REPLACE THE WIRE RO PE. THE RIG WAS FACING EAST, AND OVERHEAD ELECTRIC POWER LINES RAN NORTH TO SOUT H APPROXIMATELY 12 FEET TO THE WEST OF THE RIG. THE RIG OPERATOR WAS CONTROLLING THE WINCH, AS HIS HELPER WAS COILING THE WIRE ROPE ON THE GROUND. EITHER THERE WAS TOO MUCH SLACK FOR THE HELPER TO HANDLE OR A KINK DEVELOPED IN THE WIRE ROPE . THE OPERATOR PUT THE RIG CONTROLS IN AUTOMATIC AND ALSO BEGAN PULLING THE WIRE ROPE. HE PULLED THE WIRE ROPE INTO THE OVERHEAD POWER LINE, AND BOTH EMPLOYEES WERE ELECTROCUTED.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 547
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Fatality Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 547
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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