Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221411473

SAFEWAY INC.

Event
Aerial Lift, Electric Shock, Electrical Burn, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Energized, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Overhead Power Line, Warehouse
NAICS
493110
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345638894
Employer profile
SAFEWAY INC.
Summary number
221411473
Report ID
0830500

Event description

Employee receives electric shock from overhead power line

Investigation abstract

At 12:15 p.m. on November 12, 2021, an employee was working in a warehouse operated by a large national chain of grocery stores. He maintained machinery. He was outside on a Genie lift next to the firm's salvage building. As the employee was raising himself in the lift's man basket, he came into contact with an energized overhead power line. He received an electric shock, and he was burned. He was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 45 M

    Event type
    13
    Occupation code
    519

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