Accident Report Detail
Accident: 200371508 - Electric Shock - Contact With Overhead Line Thru Boom
Accident: 200371508 -- Report ID: 0454510 -- Event Date: 04/16/2001 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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303548846 | 04/18/2001 | 1629 | Associated Industrial Construction, Inc. | ||||
Employees were working on a project to expand a water treatment facility. They were using a crane to lift buckets of gravel into a trench to build up the bed for a concrete pour. The crane contacted a 23-kilovolt overhead power line. An employee on the ground who was touching the crane bucket was electrocuted. | |||||||
Keywords:
overhead power line, electrical, boom, crane boom, electrocuted, e c, crane
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Sewer/water treatment plant | New project or new addition | $50,000 to $250,000 | X | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 303548846 | Fatality | Electric Shock | Construction trades, n.e.c. | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Excavation FatCause: Electrocution by equipment contacting wire |