Accident Report Detail

Accident: 102226.015 - Employee Contacts An Overhead Power Line And Is Electrocuted

**Accident: 102226.015 -- Report ID: 0626300 -- Event Date: 01/10/2018**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1287806.015	01/11/2018		Robert Sean Looney

At 1:05 p.m. on January 10, 2018, an employee and coworkers were erecting a tubu lar welded frame scaffold in front of a commercial building in order to repair t he top four feet of brick at the front of the building. The scaffold was erected four tiers high, near an energized, uninsulated power line (13.2 kV phase to ph ase). The minimum required clearance distance of 10 feet was not maintained. As the construction of the scaffold was almost complete with only the last few pie ces of guardrail to be installed, the employee inadvertently contacted the power line with a 7-foot long piece of metal scaffolding. The employee was electrocu ted as a result.

Keywords: electrocuted, power lines, scaffold

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		Maintenance or repair					X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1287806.015	21	M	Fatality		Construction laborers	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Exterior masonry FatCause:

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA