Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 900456 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU CONDUCTOR

Accident Summary Nr: 900456 -- Report ID: 0355114 -- Event Date: 01/23/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126630474	01/23/1996	4911	0	Northern Virginia Electric Corporative

Abstract: A power line crew was moving an overhead power line to a different set of utility poles. A power line worker on the crew, who was working from the bucket of an aerial lift, lowered a deenergized conductor to another employee. This employee removed rubber insulating line hose from the conductor and handed it to a third employee. The third employee, an equipment operator, then began pulling on the conductor. This caused the live-line tool at the other end of the conductor to contact an energized 19-kilovolt overhead power line. The equipment operator was electrocuted.

Keywords: ELEC PROTECT EQUIP, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTROCUTED, E PTD, ELEC UTILITY WORK

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	126630474			Fatality	Electric Shock	Excavating and loading machine operators

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