Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200644748 - Employee Is Electrocuted and Dies

Accident Summary Nr: 200644748 -- Report ID: 0627700 -- Event Date: 06/28/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
313693160	06/30/2010	1794	238910	Shoestring Enterprises, Llc

Abstract: On June 28, 2010, Employee #1 and a coworker were surveying out a fence line, so that the fencing crew could build a new fence. The north side fence line was one mile long paralleling a block top road and an over head electrical distribution lines. The west side fence line was a mile long with a rise in the ground surface that would not allow line of sight from one end to the other. The employee connected two 10 ft sections of metal electrical conduit together to use as a survey sighting pole. As the employee was crossing the drainage ditch from the black top road, he contacted the 7.2 Kv over head electrical distribution phase line with the 20 ft sighting pole. Employee #1 was killed.

Keywords: SURVEYOR, ELECTROCUTED

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Sewer/water treatment plant		Alteration or rehabilitation		Under $50,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	313693160			Fatality	Electric Shock	Occupation not reported

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