OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14565626
DOOLEY JONES & ASSOCIATES INC
TUCSON, AZ—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU METAL ROD
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING A 12-FOOT SURVEYOR'S ROD (RANGE POLE) IN A METAL TRIPOD. THE TRIPOD WAS LOCATED UNDER AN OVERHEAD POWER LINE THAT WAS ONLY 16 FEET, 3 IN CHES ABOVE THE GROUND. AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS HANDLING THE ROD (WHICH WAS MADE OF A LUMINUM WITH A THIN PLASTIC COVERING), IT CONTACTED THE POWER LINE. THE EMPLOYEE , WHO HAD NOT BEEN TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE THE HAZARDS INVOLVED, RECEIVED AN ELECTR IC SHOCK AND BURNS TO HIS LEFT FOREARM AND HIS ABDOMEN.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 43
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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