Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 141147.015 - Employee receives electric shock from overhead power line

Accident Summary Nr: 141147.015 -- Report ID: 0830500 -- Event Date: 11/12/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1563889.015	11/16/2021		493110	Safeway Inc.

Abstract: At 12:15 p.m. on November 12, 2021, an employee was working in a warehouse operated by a large national chain of grocery stores. He maintained machinery. He was outside on a Genie lift next to the firm's salvage building. As the employee was raising himself in the lift's man basket, he came into contact with an energized overhead power line. He received an electric shock, and he was burned. He was hospitalized.

Keywords: Aerial Lift, Electric Shock, Electrical Burn, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Energized, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Overhead Power Line, Warehouse

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1563889.015	45	M	Hospitalized injury		Machinery maintenance occupations

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