OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #687020
UINTA COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION
EVANSTON, WY·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
An employee was supervising five firefighters trying to remove a cat from a util ity pole that supported a 7200-volt, three-phase overhead power line. The firefi ghting crew placed a metal ladder between the roadside phase conductor and the n eutral conductor. The supervisor climbed the ladder to remove the cat from the i nsulator for the far-side phase conductor. As he reached for the cat, it jumped; and the employee contacted the phase conductor with his left hand. The employee was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 413
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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