Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200350551 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CONDUCTOR

Accident Summary Nr: 200350551 -- Report ID: 0453710 -- Event Date: 01/06/1998
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
301964797	01/06/1998	1796	0	Weeks Construction Co.

Abstract: A power line crew was relocating a section of three-phase overhead power line. Two power line workers on the crew were working from aerial lifts, and the supervisor was working from a digger-derrick with his back to the other crewmembers. The ground worker had opened the storage locker on the road-side aerial lift truck and was in contact with the truck. The power line worker in the road-side aerial lift attached the truck ground to the equipment hook on the outside of the bucket and carried it up with him. He was going to connect it to the system neutral conductor before he began to remove the phase conductors. Unfortunately, he forgot to do so. When he moved his bucket to help the other power line worker cut the 13.2-kilovolt phase conductor, the truck ground contacted the phase conductor and energized the truck. The ground worker was electrocuted.

Keywords: OVERHEAD POWER LINE, PROTECTIVE GROUNDING, ELECTRICAL, POWER LINE WORKER, ELECTROCUTED, E PTD, ELEC UTILITY WORK, AERIAL LIFT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Powerline, transmission line		Alteration or rehabilitation		Under $50,000		30	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	301964797			Fatality	Electric Shock	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Fencing, installing lights, signs, etc. Fatality Cause: Electrocution by equipment contacting wire

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