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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 107607.015 - Employee Is Not Injured When Striking Electric Pole With Dum

**Accident: 107607.015 -- Report ID: 0352430 -- Event Date: 03/13/2018**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1301107.015	03/13/2018		Perkins Trucking

At 10:45 a.m. on March 13, 2018, an employee was operating a dump truck. He had backed the dump truck into a site, dumped the dirt load, and was in the process of pulling forward when the raised dump bed caught a communication line. The em ployee drove the truck with raised dump bed for approximately 60 feet. Tension o n the line from the raised dump bed caused the pole to snap and the electric lin es to drop down onto the truck body. No personal injuries occurred.

Keywords: collision, communication cable, dump truck, dump truck bed, power lines, struck by

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			3	35

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1301107.015	66	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Truck drivers, heavy	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Site grading and rock removal FatCause:

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