OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14527873
E GI III,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,CPR,ELECTROCUTED,GUY,LOAD BINDER,UTILITY POLE,MOTOR VEHICLE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU GUY
Investigation abstract
An employee was driving a Mack dump truck (Model No. U-600) that was hauling a J uy was still attached at both ends. The employer disconnected the guy from the t op of the broken pole, and the employee took it from the employer to walk it bac k across the street. As he was walking across the street, the guy, which was sti ll attached to the top of the utility pole, contacted a current-carrying jumper on the overhead power line (12,470 volts, phase to phase, 7200 volts phase to gr ound). Cardio-pulmonary and other resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful. The e mployee had been electrocuted. He was found to have a burn mark on the back of h is right hand. ohn Deere 450E crawler dozer on an 8-foot by 18-foot Hyster trailer. His employe r was following him in a pickup truck. He was at the intersection of two streets , where he made a left turn. A binding chain on the trailer broke, allowing the dozer to fall off the right side of the trailer. The rollover protective structu re of the dozer struck a stub pole used to guy a utility pole on the other side of the street. The dozer broke the stub pole, causing its top half to fall onto the overturned dozer. The span guy (which spanned the street from the stub pole to the utility pole) had dropped to within 4 feet of the road surface, but the g
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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