OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #608406
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CONDUCTOR
Investigation abstract
AN ELECTRIC UTILITY CREW WAS INSTALLING A NEW POWER LINE FOR A CONVENIENCE STORE ND TAPED AT THE FIRST POLE (THE ONE NEAREST TO THE STORE), WHICH WAS 150 FEET AW AY FROM THE MIDDLE POLE. ONE OF THE CONDUCTORS PULLED AWAY FROM THE TAPE, FLIPPE D AROUND, AND CONTACTED A 7200-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. THE POWER LINE WORKER O N THE POLE, WHO WAS IN CONTACT WITH THIS CONDUCTOR, WAS ELECTROCUTED. . TWO MEMBERS OF THE CREW WERE IN AERIAL LIFTS AT THE LAST OF THREE NEW POLES, A T THE FAR END FROM THE STORE. ANOTHER POWER LINE WORKER WAS CLIMBING THE MIDDLE POLE, WHICH WAS 105 FEET AWAY. THE TWO EMPLOYEES IN THE AERIAL LIFTS ASKED THE T HIRD EMPLOYEE IF HE WANTED THEM TO GROUND THE NEW LINE. THE EMPLOYEE ON THE POLE RESPONDED THAT GROUNDING WAS NOT NEEDED SINCE HE WOULD WEAR HIS RUBBER GLOVES. THE GROUND MAN, WHO WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MIDDLE POLE, PASSED ARMOR RODS TO T HE EMPLOYEE ON THE POLE, SO THAT THE POWER LINE WORKER COULD ATTACH THE CONDUCTO R TO THE POLE AND REMOVE THE ROLLER BLOCK. THE CONDUCTORS HAD BEEN PULLED BACK A
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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