Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200230498 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE

Accident Summary Nr: 200230498 -- Report ID: 1032500 -- Event Date: 02/22/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
302579388	02/25/1999	1795	0	Schussler Construction Co.

Abstract: An employee was working on a demolition job at a lumberyard. He was working from a ladder truck, cutting steel columns. After he cut a column, he attached it to a choker suspended by a boom and then swung the aerial lift platform laterally. The employee, who was not wearing personal fall arrest equipment, contacted a 14.4-kilovolt (phase-to-ground) overhead power line. The electric shock caused him to fall from the platform. He fell about 7.6 meters into the back of the ladder truck, where the acetylene cylinders from his cutting torch were located. The impact broke the regulator off a cylinder and started a fire. Other employees extinguished the fire, and emergency medical services transported the injured employee to a hospital. He died of his injuries 4 days after the accident.

Keywords: BURN, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, DEMOLITION, ELECTRICAL, FIRE, E C, ELECTRIC SHOCK, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, AERIAL LIFT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		Demolition		Under $50,000	2	25	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	302579388			Fatality	Burn/Scald(Heat)	Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Demolition Fatality Cause: Electrocution by equipment contacting wire

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