OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221745748

INTER-LAYER CORPORATION, INC.

CHICAGO, IL— 2025-02-25T00:00:00

Event: Aerial Lift, Aerial Truck, Basket, Boom, Boom Truck, Carpenter, Clearance, Construction, Contact, Electric Shock, Electrical Wire, Electrocuted, Frame, Framing, High Blood Pressure, High Voltage, Inexperience, Installing, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Work Procedures, Line Clearance, Metal, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Overhead Power Line, Power Lines, Psych Illness, Residential Construction, Shock, Truck Boom, Unsafe Position, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 238130
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #348064700
Employer profile: INTER-LAYER CORPORATION, INC.
Summary number: 221745748
Report ID: 0521700
Project type: A
Construction end-use: B

Event description

One employee is fatally injured, another employee suffers sh

Investigation abstract

At 8:30 a.m. on February 25, 2025, Employee #1 and Employee #2 were working as carpenters and were installing metal framing on the exterior of a multi-family dwelling. The employees were working from an Articulating Boom Lift when the boom contacted a 7,200-Volt primary overhead powerline. Employee #1 exited the lift basket and touched conductive material on the exterior of the building. Employee #1 was electrocuted and Employee #2 suffered electrical shock requiring hospitalization. Employee #1 sustained fatal injuries.

Victims (2)

#1 Fatality Age 33 M

Event type
13

Occupation code
7004
#2 Hospitalized Age 26 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
7004

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