OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822452
APEX CONTRACTING INC
WOODMOOR, MD·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
A highway construction company was removing Jersey barriers from the shoulder of ocuted. The crane operator was hospitalized for his injury. a roadway. One employee was operating a Grove 27200-kilogram crane while anothe r employee was unhooking the barricades as they were set on a flatbed trailer. A third employee was placing the lift fork under the barricades sitting on the gr ound. When the crane operator placed the last barricade on the truck, he noticed the employee on the trailer fall off. The crane operator jumped from the crane to assist and noticed that the boom at the pulley was touching an overhead power line. He ran back to the crane to reenter it. As he touched the step up handle, he received an electric shock. The employee who fell off the trailer was electr
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 849
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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