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Accident: 200901221 - Employee Electrocuted When Nearby Boom Strikes Power Line

**Accident: 200901221 -- Report ID: 0418400 -- Event Date: 04/30/2003**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
303773980	04/30/2003	1611	Reeves Construction Company, Inc.

On April 30, 2003, Employee #1, a truck driver, was standing nearby as an equipment operator used a crawler excavator to remove steel posts and metal sections of guardrails as part of a highway expansion project. During the work process, a section of the excavator's arm or boom contacted a 46,000-volt overhead transmission line. Employee #1 was electrocuted.

Keywords: highway, overhead power line, boom, electrocuted, struck against, construction, elec circ part--misc, excavator, truck driver

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Highway, road, street		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	303773980			Fatality	Electric Shock	Truck drivers, heavy	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Site clearing and grubbing FatCause: Electrocution by equipment contacting wire

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