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Accident Summary Nr: 735316 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU SCAFFOLD

Accident Summary Nr: 735316 -- Report ID: 0454510 -- Event Date: 06/05/1987
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
105448815	06/08/1987	1542	0	Bennett Contracting Of Hardeeville, Inc.

Abstract: SOME EMPLOYEES WERE MOVING TUBULAR WELDED SCAFFOLDS FROM ONE LOCATION, WHICH WAS WET AND MUDDY, TO ANOTHER. THE DESTINATION FOR THE SCAFFOLDS, A SIGN IN FRONT OF THE WORKSITE, WAS BENEATH AN OVERHEAD POWER LINE. ONE OF THE 31-FOOT-HIGH SCAFFOLDS THEY WERE MOVING CONTACTED THE POWER LINE, ELECTROCUTING TWO OF THE EMPLOYEES. FIVE OTHER EMPLOYEES RECEIVED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AND BURNS, FOR WHICH THEY WERE HOSPITALIZED.

Keywords: OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTROCUTED, ELECTRIC SHOCK, E GI IB, SCAFFOLD, TUBULAR SCAFFOLD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	105448815	Fatality	Electric Shock	Construction trades, n.e.c.
2	105448815	Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Construction trades, n.e.c.
3	105448815	Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Construction trades, n.e.c.
4	105448815	Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Construction trades, n.e.c.
5	105448815	Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Construction trades, n.e.c.
6	105448815	Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Carpenters
7	105448815	Fatality	Electric Shock	Construction trades, n.e.c.

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