OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #692624
INTERCON BUILDERS, INC.
YORK COUNTY, VA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK & BURN - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
A RIGGER WAS STANDING FORWARD AND TO THE LEFT OF A BUNDLE OF #4 REBAR TO BE LIFT S THE BALLS OF BOTH FEET. FIRST AID WAS ADMINISTERED ON THE SCENE, AND THE INJUR ED EMPLOYEE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY TAKEN BY HELICOPTER TO THE BURN TRAUMA UNIT OF A HO SPITAL. ED BY AN 18-TON GROVE MATERIAL LIFT. THE 40-FOOT LENGTHS OF REBAR WERE CRADLED O N THE CRANE'S OUTRIGGER BEAMS. WIRE ROPE SLINGS HAD BEEN LOOPED AROUND BOTH ENDS OF THE BUNDLE, AND THE EMPLOYEE AND ANOTHER RIGGER WERE HOLDING THE LOOP ENDS O F THE CHOKERS AWAITING THE HOOKS. THE CRANE OPERATOR HAD POSITIONED THE CRANE, R AISED IT ONTO THE OUTRIGGER PADS, AND PROCEEDED TO BOOM UP TO BRING THE HOOK IN CLOSE. WHEN THE OPERATOR ROTATED THE BOOM, HE BROUGHT THE UPPER PORTION OF THE B OOM INTO CONTACT WITH A 19.9-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. THE RIGGER TO THE LEF T OF THE BUNDLE RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK AND WAS BURNED ON HIS HANDS AND ACROS
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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