OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #764274
TIMBERLAND TREE COMPANY
VAN NUYS, CA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU FROND
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING A PALM TREE THAT HE HAD BEEN TRIMMING. A FROND HAD FA LLEN INTO A 4800-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE LOCATED 27 TO 29 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND . THE EMPLOYEE REACHED OVER TO REMOVE THE FROND FROM THE POWER LINE AND WAS ELEC TROCUTED. IT WAS NOT KNOWN WHETHER HE CONTACTED THE POWER LINE DIRECTLY OR THROU GH THE PALM FROND. HE WAS WEARING TREE CLIMBERS AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT, WHI CH PROVIDED GOOD CONTACT TO THE TREE ITSELF.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 495
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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