OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14565501
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,CRANE BOOM,ELECTROCUTED,E C,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CRANE
Investigation abstract
A CONTRACTOR WAS INSTALLING A 16-FOOT SECTION OF 24-INCH-DIAMETER WATER LINE IN A TRENCH. THE CONTRACTOR'S EMPLOYEES WERE USING A LORAIN 20-TON WHEEL-MOUNTED CR ANE (MODEL NUMBER 200) TO HANDLE THE PIPE. THE CRANE WAS BEING OPERATED NEAR AN OVERHEAD POWER LINE (7960 VOLTS TO GROUND). THE POWER LINE RAN PERPENDICULAR TO THE TRENCH. THE CRANE HAD JUST BEEN MOVED SO THAT IT WAS CLOSER TO THE POWER LIN E. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES SIGNALLED THE CRANE FORWARD, THEN HE MOVED BACK BESIDE T HE LEFT FRONT OUTRIGGER AND TOUCHED THE CRANE. THE CRANE HAD CONTACTED THE POWER LINE, AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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