OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #800748
SOUTHERN PAINTING & MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS
CLEMSON, SC·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
An employee had been sandblasting an air conditioning system on the roof of a te xtile plant to prepare the system for painting by another employee. A restricted high-voltage area was located on the roof of the plant. A chain-link fence encl osed this area on three sides, and the parapet wall that went around the perimet er of the roof enclosed the area on the fourth side. As he was waiting for the o ther employee to finish spray painting so that they could go to lunch, the first employee apparently was walking atop the parapet wall beside the restricted are a. He was passing under a power line when he grabbed an energized conductor to s teady himself. He was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 Male
- Nature of injury
- Electric Shock (10)
- Part of body
- HAND(S) (12)
- Accident type
- SHOCK (13)
- Source of injury
- ELEC APPARAT/WIRING (15)
- Occupation
- Painters, construction and maintenance (579)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.