OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14465249
MFC READI-MIX INC
ARLINGTON, TX—
Event description
POSSIBLE ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE
Investigation abstract
A 29-year-old employee was discharging a load of concrete from his concrete truc k into the hopper of a concrete pump truck. The discharge chute on his truck was in metal-to-metal contact with the hopper on the concrete pump truck. While he was standing on the ground beside his truck operating the discharge levers, he d oubled over and fell to the ground. (There were no witnesses to the accident.) T he employee died. The autopsy report attributed his death to cardiac arrest. A 7 200-volt, three-phase overhead power line was located near the pumping operation . It was possible that the boom on the concrete pump truck came too close to the power line and electrocuted the employee.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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