OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #671834
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
A THREE-PERSON CREW WAS REARRANGING OVERHEAD POWER LINES ALONG A ROAD. ONE OF TH LT POWER LINE WITH HIS HEAD AND CHEST AND WAS ELECTROCUTED. E LINE WORKERS WAS GOING TO TERMINATE A #2 TRIPLEX CABLE ON A UTILITY POLE LOCAT ED ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROAD. THE LINE WORKER HAD POSITIONED HIS 50-FOOT AERI AL LIFT ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROAD. HE PLACED THE BOOM AND BUCKET OF THE LIFT PERPENDICULAR TO THE VEHICLE, DIRECTLY UNDER A 12-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE T HAT RAN NORTH AND SOUTH ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE ROAD. AT THIS POINT, THE LINE WO RKER'S HEAD WAS ABOUT 33 FEET FROM THE 12-KILOVOLT LINE. ANOTHER CREW MEMBER HAN DED THE LINE WORKER THE TRIPLEX CABLE, AND HE BEGAN TO RAISE THE BOOM AND BUCKET UPWARD. WHEN HE RAISED THE AERIAL LIFT, THE LINE WORKER CONTACTED THE 12-KILOVO
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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