OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #693689
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,E C,LOAD LINE,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD LINE
Investigation abstract
A WORK CREW WAS SETTING ROOF TRUSSES ONTO A HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. SEVEN TRUS SES HAD BEEN LYING ON THE GROUND NEAR THE HOUSE AND HAD BEEN LIFTED BY A CRANE T O EMPLOYEES STATIONED TO SET THEM IN PLACE. AFTER THOSE TRUSSES WERE SET, AN EMP LOYEE ON THE GROUND WAS TOLD BY THE FOREMAN TO WAIT FOR THE REST OF THE CREW TO COME DOWN FROM THE HOUSE TO HELP DRAG MORE TRUSSES INTO POSITION FOR THE CRANE T O LIFT THEM. THE CRANE OPERATOR HAD STOPPED THE LOAD LINE A SAFE DISTANCE FROM A N OVERHEAD POWER LINE IN THE VICINITY; HOWEVER, THE EMPLOYEE ON THE GROUND GRABB ED THE CRANE HOOK AND STARTED WALKING TOWARD THE ADDITIONAL TRUSSES. HE PULLED T HE LOAD LINE INTO THE OVERHEAD LINE AND WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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