Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 171060288 - Electric Shock - Contact with Overhead Line thru Angle Iron

Accident Summary Nr: 171060288 -- Report ID: 0854910 -- Event Date: 12/07/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303612824	12/07/2000	1791	0	Interstate Erectors

Abstract: Three employees were moving 6.1-meter-long pieces of angle iron (truss supports) to the roof area of a building under construction. One employee was on ground level; one was on the metal pan stairs, about 6.1 meters above the ground; and the other one was in a sitting position, straddling a steel I-beam that was 12.6 meters above the ground. A phase conductor for a 7200-volt overhead power line was located 3.4 meters horizontally from the center of the beam. The neutral conductor was about 75 millimeters higher and 2.6 meters from the center of the beam. The employee sitting on the beam brought an angle iron into contact with the phase conductor and was electrocuted.

Keywords: METAL RAIL, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTROCUTED, E C

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000	3		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	303612824			Fatality	Electric Shock	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Open Web Steel Joists-Landing Ma Fatality Cause: Electrocution by touching exposed wire/source

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