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Accident Summary Nr: 48066.015 - Employee touches downed overhead power line and is electrocu

Accident Summary Nr: 48066.015 -- Report ID: 0111100 -- Event Date: 06/21/2013
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
913624.015	06/24/2013		221122	Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative

Abstract: At 9:30 p.m. on June 21, 2013, an employee was investigating a residential electrical outage in an isolated wooded area. The employee was searching the area for a downed overhead 14,400 volt single phase primary wire when the employee came into contact with the wire that was in the brush and was electrocuted.

Keywords: Electrical, Electrocuted, Overhead Power Line

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	913624.015	44	M	Fatality		Electrical power installers and repairers

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