OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #51821
DIGGER-DERRICK,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,TRUCK BOOM
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
An apprentice lineman was operating a digger-derrick to lower a utility pole int o a hole. Instead of lowering the boom, however, he inadvertently raised it into a 12-kilovolt overhead power line. This energized the truck, electrocuting the employee.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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