105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #943134

ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,ELECTRIC SHOCK

Event
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,OVERHEAD POWER LINE,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,ELECTRIC SHOCK
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
943134
Report ID
453710

Event description

ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE

Investigation abstract

A power line worker was working on an overhead power line. The employee had not covered the conductors in the area with rubber insulating blankets. While he was working, the employee simultaneously contacted two phase conductors of the over head line and received an electric shock. He was hospitalized for his injuries.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 37 M

    Nature of injury
    10
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    13
    Source
    15
    Occupation code
    577
    Human factor
    20
    Environmental factor
    18
    Hazardous substance
    8870
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.