OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690909
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,ELECTROCUTED,E GI IA,EXCAVATOR
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
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#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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