Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14414379 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU LOAD LINE

Accident Summary Nr: 14414379 -- Report ID: 0728900 -- Event Date: 08/13/1986
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
100043983	09/03/1986	7699	0	Siouxland Scale Service, Inc.

Abstract: TWO EMPLOYEES WERE REMOVING FORMS FROM A SCALE PIT. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES WAS OPERATING A TRUCK CRANE, AND THE OTHER WAS IN THE PIT HOOKING THE FORMS TO THE LOAD LINE. AS THE FORMS WERE BEING LIFTED, THE EMPLOYEE WHO HAD HOOKED THE FORMS NOTICED SOME NAILS IN THEM THAT HAD TO BE REMOVED. HE MOTIONED TO THE CRANE OPERATOR TO LOWER THE FORMS SO THAT THE NAILS COULD BE REMOVED. THE LOAD LINE THEN CONTACTED A 24-KILOVOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE. BOTH EMPLOYEES RECEIVED ELECTRIC SHOCKS--THE CRANE OPERATOR WAS ELECTROCUTED, AND THE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN BACK INTO THE PIT.

Keywords: OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, TRUCK CRANE, ELECTROCUTED, E GI IA, ELECTRIC SHOCK, LOAD LINE, CRANE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	100043983			Fatality	Electric Shock	Occupation not reported
2	100043983			Non Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Occupation not reported

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