105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14529333

OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,CRANE BOOM,E GI IA,ELECTRIC SHOCK,CRANE

Event
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,CRANE BOOM,E GI IA,ELECTRIC SHOCK,CRANE
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14529333
Report ID
111700

Event description

ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM

Investigation abstract

A crane operator and a foreman were setting the outriggers for a 45-ton lattice boom crane. The crane's boom contacted an overhead power line, and the foreman r eceived an electric shock. (The crane operator was uninjured.) The foreman was h ospitalized for his injury. He recovered completely.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 45 M

    Nature of injury
    10
    Part of body
    4
    Event type
    14
    Source
    15
    Occupation code
    843
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    18
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.