OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14552384
JACOB GOLDBERG & SON INC
EDISON, NJ—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CRANE BOOM
Investigation abstract
TWO EMPLOYEES WERE BREAKING DOWN A POH 250-FOOT TRUCK CRANE SO THAT IT COULD BE PT IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT. EMPLOYEE #1 ALSO WAS KEPT IN THE HOSPITAL. MOVED FROM A SITE. EMPLOYEE #2 WAS OPERATING THE CRANE. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS AT THE S IDE, PULLING ON CABLES OF THE WINCH USED TO PULL THE MAGNET ONTO THE TRUCK. THE CAB OF THE CRANE WAS UNDER 32-FOOT-HIGH, 26-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINES. WHEN THE MAGNET WAS MOVED, THE BOOM OF THE CRANE CAME WITHIN 10 FEET OF THE POWER LIN ES, "INDUCING" A CURRENT THROUGH THE BOOM AND CRANE FRAME. (THE CRANE DID LATER DRIFT INTO ACTUAL CONTACT WITH THE LINES.) EMPLOYEE #1 RECEIVED BURNS TO HIS HAN DS, LEG, AND FOOT FROM ELECTRIC SHOCK. EMPLOYEE #2 JUMPED FROM THE CAB AND RECEI VED MINOR BURNS TO HIS HANDS WHEN HE ATTENDED TO EMPLOYEE #1. EMPLOYEE #2 WAS KE
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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