OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #707299
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,BOOM,CRANE BOOM,CONSTRUCTION,E C,ELECTRIC SHOCK,CRANE
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CRANE
Investigation abstract
Some employees were using a creter mobile crane to pour concrete. The crane cont acted a 13-kilovolt overhead power line. Two employees working on the ground wit h the concrete hopper buggy attachment at the rear of the concrete conveyor rece ived electric shocks. One of them was hospitalized for his injuries.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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