OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14483960
NATIONAL MICRO COMMUNICATIONS INC
CARMEL, NY—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU WIRE ROPE
Investigation abstract
A three-employee crew was installing a 6-millimeter-diameter, galvanized steel s One of the employees reached for the wire cutters and was knocked away by anoth er electric shock. He fell and struck his head on the tongue of the trailer. He continued lying with his head on the trailer tongue. His coworkers pulled him fr ee, and they received electric shocks. The employee who had fallen was electrocu ted. (The other two injured employees were not listed on injury lines in the ori ginal report.) upport cable on existing telephone poles. They were using their truck and a reel trailer to sag a span. When the cable was properly sagged, they stopped the tru ck. An employee took a brace and bit off the right side of the truck and felt an electric shock. He dropped the tool, and alerted the other two employees that t he truck was energized. At same time, they noticed a large electric arc in the l ocation from which they were pulling the cable. One of the employees decided to knock the truck gear in to reverse to put some slack in the cable. As he did thi s, he received an electric shock. Someone said that the wire rope should be cut.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 527
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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