OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221594567

CULBERSON CONSTRUCTION, LLC

ORLA, TX— 2023-05-16T00:00:00

Event: Clearance, Electric Arc Flash, Electric Shock, Electrocuted, Equipment Operator, Fire, Gas Well Drilling, Industrial Truck, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Oil Well Drilling, PIV, Pipe, Power Lines, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Shock
NAICS: 237120
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346710270
Employer profile: CULBERSON CONSTRUCTION, LLC
Summary number: 221594567
Report ID: 0627500
Project type: C
Construction end-use: H

Event description

Employee dies when electrocuted by PIT arc flash

Investigation abstract

At 3:00 p.m. on May 16, 2023, an employee working as a supervisor for an oil and gas drilling company was operating a powered industrial truck (PIT). The employee was using the PIT boom to reposition a pipe which had been removed from a tank battery. The employee raised the boom and made contact with live power lines. The employee exited the energized PIT and tried to extinguish the flames under the vehicle. The employee died when he was electrocuted by a resulting arc flash.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 28 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
633

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