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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221470511

WECARE DENALI LLC

Event
Electric Shock, Electrocuted, Overhead Power Line, Truck, Truck Boom
NAICS
562920
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346015563
Employer profile
WECARE DENALI LLC
Summary number
221470511
Report ID
0420600

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

  1. #1 Fatality Age 60 M

    Event type
    13

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