OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14400915
TOMS CABINETS INC
MANSFIELD, TX—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
A three-person power line crew was upgrading a 12-kilovolt overhead power line t o a 34-kilovolt line. The employees were setting new utility poles and replacing the phase conductors. The crew had not installed rubber insulating line hose or blankets on the conductors. One of the employees on the crew was working from a n aerial lift. This power line worker, who was not using rubber insulating glove s or sleeves, raised his bucket and contacted one of the 7500-volt-to-ground pha se conductors. The employee was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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