OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #747600
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
SANTA CRUZ, CA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
A power line worker was on a utility pole moving a secondary conductor. He was u sing a body belt and pole strap, but was wearing leather gloves rather than rubb er insulating gloves and sleeves. He installed a jumper on the neutral. He then cut the neutral conductor outside of the jumpered section (where it ran up to th e primary level) and was electrocuted. The primary neutral was not connected to a driven ground rod at the first pole away from the primary common neutral conne ction.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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