OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #692558
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,PROTECTIVE GROUNDING,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,INDUCED CURRENT,ELEC UTILITY WORK
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH LINE ENERGIZED BY INDUCTION
Investigation abstract
A CREW OF SEVEN EMPLOYEES (A FOREMAN, TWO JOURNEYMAN LINEMEN, AND FOUR APPRENTIC ON OVERTIME AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. ADDITIONALLY, EXISTING NATURAL LIGHT WA S MARGINALLY SUFFICENT FOR THE WORK BEING PERFORMED. E LINEMEN) WERE WORKING ON OVERHEAD POWER LINES, REPAIRING ONE OF THE CONDUCTORS . TO PERFORM THE WORK, THE CREW DEENERGIZED AND GROUNDED THE LINE. AFTER THE REP AIR HAD BEEN COMPLETED, ONE OF THE APPRENTICE LINEMEN, WHO WAS WORKING FROM THE TRANSMISSION TOWER, WAS TO REMOVE THE PROTECTIVE GROUND. A MISUNDERSTANDING DEVE LOPED BETWEEN HIM AND ONE OF THE JOURNEYMAN LINEMEN, CAUSING THE APPRENTICE TO R EMOVE THE WRONG GROUND CLAMP (OF TWO) WITH HIS BARE HANDS. PARALLEL ENERGIZED LI NES INDUCED A VOLTAGE ON THE NOW UNGROUNDED CONDUCTOR. THE EMPLOYEE WHO HAD REMO VED THE CLAMP WAS ELECTROCUTED. HE HAD WORKED LONG HOURS THE DAY BEFORE AND WAS
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 14
- Task assigned
- 2
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