Accident Report Detail
Accident Summary Nr: 118927.015 - Employee incurs burns when shocked while working on overhead
Inspection Nr | Date Opened | SIC | NAICS | Establishment Name |
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1398406.015 | 05/03/2019 | 221122 | Baltimore Gas And Electric Company |
Abstract: At 12:00 p.m. on May 03, 2019, an employee was part of a 14 man crew tasked to change over a section of electrical utility lines from overhead power lines to underground power lines. The employee and a coworker were working as one of three teams working at utility pole #551049. At the beginning, the employee and their trainee, the coworker, were together in the basket of a bucket truck. The employee was watching the coworker work as they made up lightning arrestors by connecting wires to them. After the coworker finished making up the arrestors, another coworker yelled up to the employee and coworker and told them the lines were energized. The employee and coworker then communicated to another coworker working on the pole that they could make the taps. The employee and coworker came down out of the area while the other coworker was making the taps. Something happened in regards to the neutral wire, so the employee and coworker went back up the pole to "dead end" the neutral wire. The coworker was performing the work on the neutral wire and the employee was in the bucket with them watching the work. The coworker took the clamps off of the concentrics that were attached to the neutral wire. Once the coworker finished their work they saw a flash and the employee slumped over. The coworker grabbed the controls and threw them down to the ground. The employee was admitted and treated at the hospital for 2nd degree burns to the left back shoulder and stomach.
End Use | Project Type | Project Cost | Stories | Non-building Height | Fatality | ||
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Powerline, transmission line | Alteration or rehabilitation | 31 |
Employee # | Inspection Nr | Age | Sex | Degree of Injury | Nature of Injury | Construction |
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1 | 1398406.015 | 49 | M | Hospitalized injury | Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause: |