Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 724062 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU GROUND WIRE

Accident Summary Nr: 724062 -- Report ID: 0521700 -- Event Date: 08/03/1993
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103455580	08/04/1993	1731	0	M. J. Electric Co.

Abstract: A power line worker was finishing the replacement of insulator bells on a three-phase overhead power line. The power line had been deenergized and grounded. The employee had removed the protective ground from a phase conductor. He then removed the clamp on the protective ground from the tower. The protective ground was hanging down from the tower; and it had contacted the ungrounded, but still deenergized, phase conductor. The power line worker, who was holding the clamp in his hand, was electrocuted by the residual voltage on the power line.

Keywords: ELEC PROTECT EQUIP, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, PROTECTIVE GROUNDING, ELECTRICAL, POWER LINE WORKER, ELECTROCUTED, E PTD, ELEC UTILITY WORK, ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	103455580			Fatality	Electric Shock	Electrical power installers and repairers

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