OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #602037
WEST COAST INDUSTRIES, INC.
FORT MYERS, FL·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
A TRUCK DRIVER HAD DRIVEN A READY-MIX CONCRETE TRUCK TO A SUBSTATION. HE WAS TO POUR CONCRETE SLABS FOR NEW EQUIPMENT THAT WAS TO BE INSTALLED IN THE SUBSTATION . THE EXISTING ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT IN THE SUBSTATION WAS ENERGIZED AT THE TIME. T HE TRUCK DRIVER CLIMBED ONTO THE TOP OF THE TRUCK TO LOOK INTO THE HOPPER TO CHE CK THE CONCRETE LEVEL AFTER A POUR. WHILE HE WAS ON TOP OF THE TRUCK, HE CONTACT ED A 138-KILOVOLT BUSBAR WITH HIS HEAD OR HIS ARM. THE EMPLOYEE WAS SEVERELY INJ URED AND UNDERWENT LONG-TERM HOSPITALIZATION.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 53 Male
- Nature of injury
- Electric Shock (10)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- OTHER (14)
- Source of injury
- ELEC APPARAT/WIRING (15)
- Occupation
- Truck drivers, heavy (804)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#981
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