OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14559066
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
TWO EMPLOYEES, ONE OF WHOM WAS A LINE FOREMAN, DROVE TO A LOCATION ALONG AN OVER OOK ONE PART OF THE LINE IN ONE HAND AND THE OTHER PART IN HIS OTHER HAND. HE WA S ELECTROCUTED. HEAD RESIDENTIAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WHERE A FUSE ON A THREE-PHASE LINE HAD OPEN ED OR FAILED. THE FUSE WAS REPLACED, AND THE REPLACEMENT ALSO OPENED. SEARCHING FOR A GROUND FAULT IN THE OVERHEAD SYSTEM, THE TWO WORKERS WENT ABOUT 0.25 MILES AWAY, WHERE A SINGLE-PHASE OVERHEAD POWER LINE JOINED THE THREE-PHASE LINE. THE EMPLOYEE RAISED HIMSELF IN THE BUCKET OF THE AERIAL LIFT MOUNTED ON THE UTILITY TRUCK, WHILE THE FOREMAN STAYED BELOW. WEARING LEATHER GLOVES, THE EMPLOYEE IN THE LIFT DISCONNECTED THE SINGLE-PHASE LINE AT THE CABLE TERMINATOR. (THE LEATHE R GLOVES WERE OF THE COMMON WORK TYPE.) THE EMPLOYEE REMOVED THE CONNECTOR AND T
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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