OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #665828
STORM,ROOF,WORK RULES,ELECTROCUTED,CONSTRUCTION,LIGHTNING,ELECTRIC SHOCK,STRUCK BY,ANTENNA
Event description
Employee killed when struck by lightning
Investigation abstract
Because of rain, several employees, including Employee #1, were placing a tarpau lin over a section of roof that had been stripped that day. A single bolt of lig htning struck and killed Employee #1. Evidence indicates that the lightning firs t struck an antenna on a house 50 ft south of where the employees were working a nd then struck Employee #1.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 32
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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