OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14259253
SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO
LONGSTREET, LA—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CRANE BOOM
Investigation abstract
A FOUR-MAN CREW WAS REMOVING A TRANSFORMER, TRANSFORMER SWITCH, AND LIGHTNING AR RESTER FROM A 36-FOOT-HIGH UTILITY POLE CARRYING A SINGLE 7620-VOLT OVERHEAD POW ER LINE. THE TRANSFORMER HAD BEEN REMOVED AND WAS SITTING ON THE BED OF AN AUXIL IARY LINE TRUCK (CHEVY CHASSIS WITH A PITTMAN POLECAT HYDRAULIC TELESCOPIC BOOM) . AN APPRENTICE LINEMAN WAS STANDING ON THE GROUND REMOVING LUGS FROM THE SECOND ARY TERMINAL OF THE TRANSFORMER. IN ORDER TO LOWER THE SWITCHGEAR AND LIGHTNING ARRESTER, THE BOOM OPERATOR, WHO WAS STANDING ON A PLATFORM ON THE BACK OF THE T RUCK, WAS EXTENDING AND ROTATING THE BOOM. WHEN IT CONTACTED THE OVERHEAD POWER LINE, THE APPRENTICE LINEMAN WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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