Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200920338 - electric shock - contact with overhead line

Accident Summary Nr: 200920338 -- Report ID: 0355114 -- Event Date: 09/11/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303214472	09/11/2000	1623	0	Eastern Technical Communications Inc.

Abstract: A supervisory employee was installing an overhead fiber-optic communications cable from the platform of a truck-mounted, telescoping-boom aerial lift. With the free end of the cable attached to the platform, he had elevated the platform to the level of the suspension strand. As he pulled the fiber-optic cable from a trailer-mounted reel on the ground through the branches of a tree to attach it to the suspension strand, either his body or the metal platform contacted one phase conductor of a 19.9-kilovolt overhead power line. The employee, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was electrocuted.

Keywords: OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, TELECOM WORK, E TC, ELECTROCUTED, AERIAL LIFT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		New project or new addition		$50,000 to $250,000		25	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	303214472			Fatality	Electric Shock	Supervisors; electricians & power transm. install.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installing equipment (HVAC and other) Fatality Cause: Electrocution by touching exposed wire/source

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