OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #517342
CF & T CONCRETE PUMPING
HAYWARD, CA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
An employee was standing on the ground, holding the control box for the concrete pump on a concrete pumping truck equipped with an articulating boom. The boom c ontacted an overhead power line located about 9 meters above the truck. The empl oyee was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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