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Accident: 200358430 - Employee Is Killed When Thrown From Truck

**Accident: 200358430 -- Report ID: 0453710 -- Event Date: 04/20/2010**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
314372921	04/20/2010	1731	Pike Electric, Inc.

At or around 9:30 a.m. on April 20, 2010, Employee #1 was thrown from the operator's seat of a "Digger Derrick" truck while attempting to lift an engineered steel pole with the crane located at the rear of the truck. Employee #1 was killed in the incident.

Keywords: ejected, vehicle, equipment operator, metal pole, aerial lift, crane

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Powerline, transmission line		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000		140	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	314372921			Fatality	Other	Electrical power installers and repairers	FallDist: FallHt:8 Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite FatCause: Fall from vehicle (vehicle/construction equipment)

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