Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201391687 - Electric Shock - Contact with Overhead Line thru Container

Accident Summary Nr: 201391687 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 01/18/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
308841923	01/18/2008	4212	562119	Kee Container Services

Abstract: A truck driver for a container company was picking up a container filled with scrap from a customer. (The truck driver had delivered the empty container earlier that day.) The driver parked his truck and tilt-frame trailer directly under an overhead power line. As he was operating the lift controls near the front of the driver's side of the trailer, the tilt frame contacted the overhead line, electrocuting the truck driver.

Keywords: OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTROCUTED, E GI IA, CONTAINERIZED CARGO, TILT-FRAME HOIST

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	308841923			Fatality	Other	Truck drivers, heavy

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