OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #608364
BOYD COCHRAN & SONS/DBA/HOUSE MOVERS, INC.
MARIETTA, GA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
A HOUSE MOVING CONTRACTOR WAS MOVING A STRUCTURE. TWO EMPLOYEES WERE RIDING ATOP POWER LINE, AND HE WAS ELECTROCUTED. (HE WAS NOT WEARING ANY ELECTRICAL PROTECT IVE EQUIPMENT.) THE STRUCTURE TO MOVE CABLES OUT OF THE WAY AS THE STRUCTURE TRAVELED ALONG THE STREET. THE STRUCTURE'S ROOF RIDGE CONTACTED A TELEPHONE CABLE, AND THE RIG CAM E TO A STOP TO ENABLE ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES ON THE STRUCTURE TO EASE THE CABLE OV ER TO THE SIDE OF THE GABLE END OF THE ROOF. ONE OF THESE TWO EMPLOYEES WAS INST RUCTED BY THE EMPLOYER AND THREE COWORKERS TO STAY CLEAR OF A 7.2-KILOVOLT OVERH EAD POWER LINE THAT WAS LOCATED DIRECTLY ABOVE THE TELEPHONE LINE. HE WAS ALSO I NSTRUCTED TO SIT ON THE ROOF AND PUSH THE TELEPHONE LINE. THE EMPLOYEE, INSTEAD, STOOD UP, REACHED DOWN AND PICKED UP THE TELEPHONE LINE. HIS HEAD CONTACTED THE
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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