OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601591
PLANT TECHNOLOGY, INC.
PLANT CITY, FL·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CRANE BOOM
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING A CRANE OPERATOR IN LOADING TWO WELDING MACHINES ON A NURSES TREATED THE INJURED EMPLOYEE'S BURNS. THE CRANE OPERATOR CLAIMED THAT THE CURRENT ARCED TO THE CRANE BOOM. THE BOOM HAD THREE BURN MARKS ON AT ABOUT 33 I NCHES FROM THE END. FLAT-BED TRUCK. ONE MACHINE HAD ALREADY BEEN LOADED, AND THEY WERE LOADING THE O THER ONE. THE BOOM ON THE CRANE WAS EXTENDED ABOUT 67 FEET, NEAR AN OVERHEAD POW ER LINE. THE LOWEST OF THE FOUR CONDUCTORS WAS A 69-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD CONDUCTOR THAT WAS 55 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND. AS THE CRANE OPERATOR WAS MOVING THE CRANE, T HE OTHER EMPLOYEE REACHED OUT TO GUIDE THE WELDING MACHINE ONTO THE TRUCK. HE RE CEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK AND BURNS. THE CRANE OPERATOR SAW THE INJURY AND GOT OU T OF THE CAB TO LAY THE INJURED EMPLOYEE DOWN. THE CRANE OPERATOR IMMEDIATELY CA LLED FOR AN AMBULANCE. WHILE THEY WAITED FOR THE AMBULANCE TO ARRIVE, THE PLANT
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 805
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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