Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200672855 - electric shock - contact with overhead line thru metal pipe

Accident Summary Nr: 200672855 -- Report ID: 0418800 -- Event Date: 10/04/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303185672	10/06/2000	1761	0	Jaime Kopetman Dba Alapata Contractors
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303185789	10/06/2000	6531	0	Elysee Investment Co. Of Miami Beach
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303185672	10/06/2000	1761	0	Jaime Kopetman Dba Alapata Contractors

Abstract: Two employees were standing on the flat roof of an office building, assessing the roof for repairs. They were about 9.1 meters above the ground. One of the employees found a 3-meter-long piece of metal conduit on the roof to use to unclog a drain. Both employees were standing in accumulated water about 450 millimeters deep. When the employee used the metal conduit to unclog the drain, he brought it into contact with a13-kilovolt overhead power line that was located about 2.3 meters above him and 1 meter from the side of the building. He was electrocuted. (He also fell off the roof, struck his neck on the spikes on a metal fence, and was decapitated.) The other employee, who was standing on another portion of the roof, received an electric shock.

Keywords: OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTRIC SHOCK, E GI IC, ELECTROCUTED, METAL PIPE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000	3		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	303185672	Fatality	Electric Shock	Roofers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Roofing Fatality Cause: Electrocution by equipment contacting wire
2	303185789			Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Fatality Cause:
3	303185672	Non Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Roofers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Fatality Cause:

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