OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690909

DWIGHT PETERSON & SONS EXCAVATING

SALT LAKE CITY, UT· 1986-06-24T00:00:00

Event: OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, BOOM, ELECTROCUTED, E GI IA, EXCAVATOR
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #102108438
Employer profile: DWIGHT PETERSON & SONS EXCAVATING
Summary number: 690909
Report ID: 854910

Event description

ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM

Investigation abstract

An employee was holding onto a 5.5-meter-long, 762-millimeter-diameter section o f metal pipe. An operator was using a Mitsubishi hydraulic excavator to move the pipe from the side of the road to a trench in the center of the roadway. The pi pe was suspended by a wire rope attached to the bucket of the excavator. As the operator raised the boom of the excavator, it contacted a 7200-volt overhead pow er line. The employee holding the pipe was electrocuted.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 16 M

Nature of injury
10

Part of body
31

Event type
13

Source
27

Occupation code
869

Human factor
4

Environmental factor
8

Task assigned
1

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