Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201281003 - Employee Electrocuted by Contact with Overhead Powerline

Accident Summary Nr: 201281003 -- Report ID: 0418100 -- Event Date: 09/11/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303381925	09/11/2000	1623	0	Pike Electric, Inc.

Abstract: A power line worker was working in an aerial lift. He wedged the bucket between a phase conductor and the neutral conductor of a 14-kilovolt overhead power line. While he was working, the bucket became energized, and the employee was electrocuted.

Keywords: ELEC PROTECT EQUIP, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, POWER LINE WORKER, ELECTROCUTED, E PTD, ELEC UTILITY WORK, AERIAL LIFT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation		$250,000 to $500,000	3	30	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	303381925			Fatality	Electric Shock	Electrical power installers and repairers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 30 feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause: Fall from roof

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