OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #969592
UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO
WELLSVILLE, UT·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD
Investigation abstract
A CREW OF THREE EMPLOYEES WAS INSTALLING A STREETLIGHT THAT HAD BEEN MOUNTED ON A 35-FOOT-LONG WOOD POLE. THE METAL ARM OF THE STREETLIGHT WAS 13 FEET LONG, AND A GROUND WIRE RAN THE LENGTH OF THE POLE. THE CREW WAS USING A BOOM TRUCK TO SE T THE POLE-MOUNTED STREETLIGHT. THE HOLE FOR THE POLE WAS 12 FEET TO ONE SIDE OF A 25-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. AS THE POLE WAS BEING MOVED BY THE BOOM ON T HE TRUCK, THE STREETLIGHT ARM ROTATED UP AND CONTACTED A 14.4-KILOVOLT PIGTAIL O N THE OVERHEAD LINE. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES ON THE CREW, WHO WAS HOLDING ONTO THE BUTT END OF THE POLE AT THE TIME, RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK. THE EMPLOYEE, A 33 -YEAR-OLD POWER LINE WORKER, DIED LATER THAT DAY AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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