OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14413363
SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO
AMARILLO, TX—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU NEW LINE
Investigation abstract
FOUR EMPLOYEES, TWO OF THEM SUPERVISORS, WERE INSTALLING OVERHEAD POWER LINES OV ER EXISTING 7620-VOLT OVERHEAD LINES. RUBBER INSULATING LINE HOSE AND INSULATING COVERS HAD BEEN INSTALLED ON THE EXISTING LINES. TWO PHASES HAD BEEN TIED TO PU LLING ROPES, AND ONE EMPLOYEE WAS TIEING THE THIRD PHASE TO A ROPE. ONE OF THE S UPERVISORS STATED THAT HE WOULD GET HIS RUBBER GLOVES SO THAT THEY COULD PULL TH E LINES ONE AT A TIME. HE TURNED TO GO ABOUT 70 FEET FOR HIS GLOVES, BUT A SECON D EMPLOYEE STARTED PULLING ONE OF THE LINES. AS THE TIE-BACK KNOT CAME TO THE LI NE HOSE, IT STUCK AT THE SEAM AND CONTACTED THE CONDUCTOR. THIS ENERGIZED THE CO NDUCTOR ON THE GROUND THAT THE FIRST EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING. HE WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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