Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201054541 - Electric Shock - Contact with Overhead Line thru Metal Pole

Accident Summary Nr: 201054541 -- Report ID: 0950642 -- Event Date: 09/18/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126076652	09/18/2000	1721	0	Thomas G Murphy Co

Abstract: An employee working for a painting contractor was painting the exterior wall of a church. The employee had no experience as a painter. His employer provided him with a makeshift, single-point suspended metal scaffold and a paint roller with a metal handle that was 3.2 meters long. The employee rigged the scaffold to a height of about 9.1 meters from the ground. A 16-kilovolt overhead power line was located 3.2 meters from the wall and 9.5 meters from the ground. As the employee was painting, the paint roller fell backwards and contacted the power line. The employee received an electric shock and sustained electrical burns. A coworker got him off the scaffold. The injured employee was hospitalized with third-degree burns to both hands and to his chest.

Keywords: BURN, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTRIC SHOCK, EXTENSION HANDLE, PAINTER, E GI IB, SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000	1	50

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	126076652			Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Painters, construction and maintenance	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Exterior painting Fatality Cause: Electrocution by equipment contacting wire

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