OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14525927
LYNGCO ENTERPRISES INC.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD LINE
Investigation abstract
Some employees were using a Lorain truck crane (Model No. C-42) with a telescopi ng boom to hoist 11-meter-long wood trusses. The trusses were stacked under a tr ee that was below an overhead power line. However, no one had been designated to observe the clearance from the power line. One of the employees hooked a wire r ope choker sling to a truss. The crane's load line contacted the 7620-volt power line, and the employee was electrocuted.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 67 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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