OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14562409
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,E GI IA,ELECTRIC SHOCK,LOAD LINE,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD LINE
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND NEXT TO A METAL ONE-PERSON PERSONNEL PLAT WAS TREATED AND RELEASED. FORM. THE PLATFORM WAS LYING ON ITS BACK, AND A METAL BRACKET HAD JUST BEEN WELD ED ON ITS FRONT. THE LOAD LINE FROM A CRANE WAS ATTACHED TO THE PLATFORM, WHICH WAS SITTING BENEATH A 69-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. THE LOAD LINE WAS WITHIN 10 FEET OF THE OVERHEAD LINE. AS THE CRANE BEGAN TO LIFT THE PLATFORM TO AN UPRI GHT POSITION, THE LOAD LINE CONTACTED THE OVERHEAD LINE. THE EMPLOYEE ON THE GRO UND, WHO HAD BEEN HOLDING ONTO THE PLATFORM, RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK THAT KNO CKED HIM CLEAR OF THE PLATFORM. THE EMPLOYEE, WHO DID NOT LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS AND WHO WAS APPARENTLY OTHERWISE UNHARMED, WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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