OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #665893
LUKE AND SON
CUMBERLAND, RI·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LADDER
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYER AND AN ACQUAINTANCE OF HIS WERE PAINTING A 2.5-STORY HOUSE. (THE ACQ UAINTANCE WAS NOT AN EMPLOYEE AND WAS NOT LISTED ON THE FORM.) THEY WERE SETTING UP A 40-FOOT ALUMINUM EXTENSION LADDER TO PAINT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE. THE EMP LOYER WAS HOLDING THE LADDER, AND HIS ACQUAINTANCE WAS PULLING THE ROPE TO EXTEN D THE LADDER. AN 8000-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE WAS LOCATED AT THE ROAD EDGE, ABO VE THE TWO PEOPLE. APPARENTLY, THE LADDER CONTACTED THE POWER LINE, ELECTROCUTIN G THE EMPLOYER.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 Male
- Nature of injury
- Electric Shock (10)
- Part of body
- OTHBODYSYS (31)
- Accident type
- SHOCK (13)
- Source of injury
- ELEC APPARAT/WIRING (15)
- Occupation
- Chief exec's & gen'l administrators, public admin. (4)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.