OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #733824
OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,AGRICULTURE,ELECTROCUTED,IRRIGATION PIPE,PIPE,E AG
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU PIPE
Investigation abstract
TWO EMPLOYEES HAD BEEN HIRED AS SUMMER HELP TO BUILD A HORSE CORRAL AND TO DO YA RD AND GARDEN WORK. ONE MORNING, THE EMPLOYEES WERE CLEANING AROUND THE CORRAL-- REMOVING SCRAPS OF WOOD POSTS, ROLLING UP BARBED WIRE, AND MOVING AN IRRIGATION PIPE. (THE CORRAL WAS AT THE EDGE OF THE EMPLOYER'S PROPERTY, AND THE EMPLOYEES WERE ACTUALLY CLEANING THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER'S LAND.) ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES LIFTED THE IRRIGATION PIPE, AND IT EITHER CONTACTED OR CAME TOO CLOSE TO A 7200 -VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. THE EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 17 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 479
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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