OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14540520
MILL ROAD CONTRACTORS, INC.
NORTH ANDOVER, MA—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM
Investigation abstract
Some employees were involved in a trenching operation in a roadway. They were in stalling a 203-millimeter-diameter clay sewer pipe in the trench, using a hydrau lic backhoe to move the pipe. The employees were performing the operation under an overhead power line. As a laborer on the crew was attaching a chain from the bucket of the backhoe to a pipe, the backhoe operator brought the boom into cont act with the power line. The laborer was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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