OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14498141
O & O CONSTRUCTION CO INC
HOUSTON, TX—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
At a highway construction site, a crew was installing an underground drainage sy stem. A signaler for a Grove hydraulic crane (Model No. RT-580) was placing stee l pins on a sling at the end of the crane's load line into holes in a concrete c ulvert that was about 0.9 meters by 1.2 meters in dimension. The signaler was st anding on top of the culvert with a steel pin in each hand when the crane boom c ontacted a 7200-volt overhead power line. He was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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