OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14525463
INTERSTATE INDUSTRIAL PARK LTD.
STUART, FL·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU GIRDER
Investigation abstract
ONE OVERCAST AND CLOUDY DAY, A CONSTRUCTION SITE FOREMAN WAS INSTALLING METAL RO OF SUPPORT GIRDERS ACROSS THE METAL TRUSSES OF THE SHELL OF A WAREHOUSE UNDER CO NSTRUCTION. HE WAS MANEUVERING ONE 21-FOOT-LONG GIRDER INTO PLACE WHEN THE GIRDE R CONTACTED A NEARBY 7600-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. THE FOREMAN WAS ELECTROCUTED .
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 558
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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