OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221660111

BLAKLEY CONSTRUCTION LLC

SULPHUR, OK· 2024-04-23T00:00:00

Event: Arm, Clearance, Conductor, Construction, Contact, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Electric Shock, Electrocuted, High Voltage, Installing, Laborer, Ladder, Line Clearance, Metal, Metal Ladder, Metal Siding, Power Lines, Residential Construction, Roof, Shock, Work Surface, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 238170
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347436735
Employer profile: BLAKLEY CONSTRUCTION LLC
Summary number: 221660111
Report ID: 0627700
Project type: A
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee dies from electrocution when ladder contacts power

Investigation abstract

At 4:36 p.m. on April 23, 2024, an employee working as a construction laborer for a siding contractor was assisting a coworker installing metal gutters. The employee and the coworker (company owner) tied two portable ladders together to gain additional height to reach a roof edge 25 feet above the ground. They were raising the two ladders to the roof edge when the ladders tipped backwards and fell onto exposed and energized 7200-Kilivolt overhead power lines. The ladder that contacted the power lines was metal with conductive siderails. The employee was standing on the ground at the base of the ladder when he was electrocuted. The employee died from internal and external electrical related burns.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 31 M

Event type
13

Occupation code
869

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