OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221470511
WECARE DENALI LLC
FORT MYERS, FL—
Event description
Employee Is Killed By Electrocution
Investigation abstract
At 11:00 a.m. on June 13, 2022, an employee was delivering compost loaded in the bed of a grapple truck. The employee was working in a two-man crew and was being trained to operate the grapple truck. A coworker was operating the hydraulic grapple and inadvertently swung the grapple into 14.4 kV overhead power lines. The employee was climbing out of truck cab at the same moment the grapple contacted the power lines. The employee was killed by electrocution.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 60 M
- Event type
- 13
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