Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201101516 - Electric Shock - Contact with Overhead Line thru Metal Pipe

Accident Summary Nr: 201101516 -- Report ID: 0950623 -- Event Date: 05/08/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125672915	05/11/2000	0191	0	Hanford Ranch

Abstract: Two employees were doing yard work for a ranch that grew alfalfa. They went into a field to get some irrigation pipe to water the yard at the ranch house. As they were shaking something from the pipe, it contacted a 12-kilovolt overhead power line above them. Both employees received electric shocks and sustained burns. They were hospitalized with second- and third-degree burns.

Keywords: BURN, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, AGRICULTURE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, E AG, METAL PIPE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	125672915			Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Farm workers
2	125672915			Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Farm workers

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