OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #675017
BURN,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,CRANE BOOM,E C,ELECTRIC SHOCK,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
A CREW OF EMPLOYEES WAS ERECTING A STRUCTURAL STEEL BUILDING. THEY NEEDED TO GET D FOR HIS INJURIES. THE CRANE OPERATOR, WHO LACKED TRAINING IN WORKING AROUND PO WER LINES, HAD TAKEN THE CRANE CLOSER THAN 10 FEET TO THE LINE. SOME FLOOR DECKING THAT WAS STORED UNDER THREE PILES OF ROOF DECKING. THE CREW USED A PITTMAN HYDRALIFT (MODEL NO. HL1160; SERIAL NO. 24270-56327) TRUCK-MOUNTE D CRANE TO MOVE THE ROOF DECKING. TWO EMPLOYEES RIGGED THE DECKING, AND THEY GUI DED IT WITH THEIR HANDS AS THE CRANE WAS MOVING IT. THEY HAD MOVED TWO PILES OF ROOF DECKING, AND THE EMPLOYEES WERE MOVING THE THIRD TO THE GROUND WHEN THE CRA NE CAME TOO CLOSE TO A 44-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. ONE OF THE TWO EMPLOYEES GUIDING THE LOAD WAS STANDING ON WET SOIL AND RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK AND EL ECTRICAL BURNS TO BOTH HANDS, TO BOTH FEET, AND TO HIS CHEST. HE WAS HOSPITALIZE
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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