OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14565840
CITIZENS UTILITIES COMPANY
NOGALES, AZ·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CONDUCTOR
Investigation abstract
Two power line workers were on an emergency service call responding to a power o ergizing it. Both of the employees on the ground were touching the now energized conductor. One of them was electrocuted. The other received an electric shock a nd severe burns on his chest and the lower section of his body. He was hospitali zed for his injuries. utage. It was raining, and a guy had broken and fallen on an overhead power line . One of the three phase conductors of the 13-kilovolt power line had burned in two. The fuse protecting the line had opened. Before beginning work on this line , the two employees deenergized the other two phase conductors on the line by op ening their cutouts. The employees spliced the broken conductor while they were on the ground. They then started taking out the slack in the conductor by pullin g on it and sending it up to a third power line worker who was on a utility pole . The energized part of the cutout contacted the end of the downed conductor, en
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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