Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202311346 - Electric Shock - Contact with Overhead Line thru Load Line

Accident Summary Nr: 202311346 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 12/27/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303946909	01/02/2001	1781	0	Spivey Well Drilling

Abstract: An employee was operating a drilling rig to remove the suction pipe from an existing well. He had placed the boom directly over the well and had attached the load line to the casing adapter with a nipple. The nipple broke away from the casing adapter, at the threads, and the load line flipped up into an overhead power line, electrocuting the employee.

Keywords: OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTROCUTED, E GI IA, EQUIPMENT FAILURE, DRILL RIG--NON-OIL, LOAD LINE

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

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	303946909			Fatality	Electric Shock	Drilling and boring machine operators

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