Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 786319 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE

Accident Summary Nr: 786319 -- Report ID: 1054111 -- Event Date: 11/19/1991
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
115712929	11/19/1991	0783	0	Pruett Inc

Abstract: AN EMPLOYEE WAS TRIMMING A TREE. A 7200-VOLT OVERHEAD POWER LINE PASSED THROUGH THE CROTCH OF THE TREE, WHERE THE EMPLOYEE WAS WAITING FOR A COWORKER TO GET A ROPE SO THAT A CHAIN SAW COULD BE PULLED UP. WHEN THE COWORKER RETURNED, HE FOUND THE EMPLOYEE HANGING UPSIDE DOWN. THE COWORKER CLIMBED THE TREE AND BROUGHT THE EMPLOYEE TO THE GROUND. THE EMPLOYEE HAD CONTACTED THE POWER LINE. PARAMEDICS ARRIVED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO A HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL. HE HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED.

Keywords: E GI III, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTROCUTED, TREE, TREE TRIMMING

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	115712929			Fatality	Electric Shock	Forestry workers, except logging

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