OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14563001
T.C. LLOYD CONSTRUCTION CO. INC.
COMMACK, NY·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING FROM THE ELEVATED BUCKET OF A HIGH RANGER AERIAL LIFT. H E WAS CLEARING BRANCHES AROUND OVERHEAD POWER LINES THAT WERE TO BE SPLICED BECA USE OF DAMAGE DONE BY A HURRICANE. THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FIVE-MAN CREW WERE O N THE GROUND NEARBY. THE EMPLOYEE IN THE BUCKET, WHO WAS WEARING HIS HARD HAT, C ONTACTED ANOTHER OVERHEAD POWER LINE WITH HIS HEAD. THE SECOND LINE, WHICH WAS E NERGIZED AT 7620 VOLTS, WAS 30 INCHES ABOVE THE FIRST SET OF LINES, WHICH WERE S ECONDARY CONDUCTORS. THE EMPLOYEE'S STOMACH WAS CONTACTING ONE OF THE SECONDARY CONDUCTORS. THIS COMPLETED THE CIRCUIT, AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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