OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14525752
ME DO CANE TRANSPORT CO INC
PAHOKEE, FL—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU EQUIPMENT
Investigation abstract
IN A CANE-HARVESTING OPERATION, ONE EMPLOYEE OPERATED THE CANE HARVESTER, AND AN OTHER HAULED THE CANE AWAY IN A TRACTOR TRAILER. AT SOME TIME DURING THE OPERATI ON, THE HARVESTER OPERATOR TOOK DIRECTION FROM THE TRACTOR TRAILER OPERATOR AND RAISED THE LOADER INTO AN OVERHEAD POWER LINE. THE TRACTOR TRAILER OPERATOR, WHO HAD HIS HAND ON THE EQUIPMENT, WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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