Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 116189.015 - Employee Is Killed When Thrown From Bucket Lift

**Accident: 116189.015 -- Report ID: 0418100 -- Event Date: 04/29/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1400245.015	04/30/2019		Wayne Martin

At 10:00 a.m. on April 29, 2019, an employee was in the bucket of a bucket lift truck without fall protection and began to move cable lines from an old pole to the new pole. The employee let the cable line slack down into the roadway. A con crete truck came down the road and caught the cables and pinned the employee in the bucket and then threw him from the aerial lift bucket, killing him.

Keywords: aerial lift, ejected, fall, fall protection, power line worker, power lines, truck, truck crane, utility pole

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition				20	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1400245.015	38	M	Fatality		Installers And Repairers	FallDist: 30 FallHt:20 Cause: Installing equipment (HVAC and other) FatCause:

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