Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 768473 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH OVERHEAD LINE THRU UTIL. POLE

Accident Summary Nr: 768473 -- Report ID: 0626300 -- Event Date: 04/29/1993
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
107545394	05/04/1993	1731	0	Universal Electric Constr. Co.

Abstract: A power line crew was installing a utility pole. One employee was operating a Telelect digger-derrick truck. Three other employees were standing around a 1.8-meter-deep hole guiding the pole into hole. The hole was 1.2 meters from an existing utility pole supporting an overhead power line. The power line workers had not completely secured the ground wire to the pole, and they had not installed electrical protective equipment on the existing power line. The top part of the utility pole contacted the middle phase conductor of the power line. The bottom of the ground wire, which was sticking straight out from pole, contacted one of the three employees above his Class II rubber insulating gloves and electrocuted him.

Keywords: DIGGER-DERRICK, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, ELECTRICAL, POWER LINE WORKER, ELECTROCUTED, E PTD, ELEC UTILITY WORK, ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR, UTILITY POLE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	107545394			Fatality	Electric Shock	Electrical power installers and repairers

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