Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202260600 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU BOOM

Accident Summary Nr: 202260600 -- Report ID: 0257230 -- Event Date: 03/21/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
301706206	03/21/2002	1731	0	Island Contractors, Inc.

Abstract: Some employees of an electrical contractor were using a digger-derrick to set utility poles. While an employee was using controls located at the back of the truck to position a pole in its hole, the top part of the elbow on the boom of the digger-derrick came too close to a 13.2-kilovolt overhead power line. Current arced to the boom, electrocuting the employee. (The truck also ignited and burned.)

Keywords: DIGGER-DERRICK, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, BOOM, ELECTROCUTED, E PTD, ELEC UTILITY WORK, UTILITY POLE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	301706206			Fatality	Electric Shock	Occupation not reported

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