OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14528749
BURN,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,DUMPSTER,E GI IA,ELECTRIC SHOCK,TILT-FRAME HOIST
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT THROUGH TILT-FRAME HOIST
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OPERATING A HYDRAULIC TILT-FRAME HOIST BENEATH OVERHEAD POWER LI HE TRUCK AND TRAILER WERE ABOUT 56 FEET, 3 INCHES LONG, AND THE DUMPSTER ABOUT 3 5 FEET LONG. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD THE TILT FRAME ABOUT 4 TO 5 INCHES AWAY AND TRIED T O PULL UP THE DUMPSTER. THE STRAIN ON THE TRAILER LIFTED THE MAST INTO THE OVERH EAD LINE (34 KILOVOLTS PHASE TO PHASE, 19.9 KILOVOLTS PHASE TO GROUND). EMPLOYEE #2 SAW EMPLOYEE #1 BEING SHOCKED AND RAN TO AID HIM WITH EMPLOYEES #3 AND 4 RIG HT BEHIND. EMPLOYEE #2 THREW HIMSELF AT EMPLOYEE #1 TO KNOCK HIM OFF THE CONTROL S. HE THEN RECEIVED SHOCKS AND BURNS. EMPLOYEES #3 AND 4 TRIED TO GRAB EMPLOYEES #1 AND 2 BUT WERE KNOCKED DOWN BY THE CURRENT. EVENTUALLY, EMPLOYEES #2 AND 3 P ULLED EMPLOYEE #1 AWAY. HOWEVER, EMPLOYEE #1 DIED OF ELECTROCUTION. NES, TRYING TO PICK UP A DUMPSTER THAT WAS FILLED WITH HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL WASTE. EMPLOYEE #2 ATTACHED THE CABLE FROM THE HOIST TO THE DUMPSTER. THE OVERHEAD LIN E WAS 24 FEET, 4 INCHES ABOVE THE GROUND. THE OPERATION WAS LOCATED AT THE APPRO XIMATE MIDPOINT BETWEEN TWO UTILITY POLES. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OPERATING THE CONTROL S, WHICH WERE LOCATED ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE OF THE TRAILER. HE WAS STANDING ON TH E GROUND, WHICH WAS SEMISOFT BECAUSE THE TEMPERATURE WAS 40 DEGREES, F. THERE WA S LIGHT SNOW ON THE GROUND, AND THE SUN WAS SHINING. EMPLOYEES #2, 3, AND 4 WERE STANDING AT THE REAR OF THE TRAILER, WHERE IT MADE CONTACT WITH THE DUMPSTER. T
Victims (4)
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#4 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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