Laborer Electrocuted in Tennessee

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A laborer was unloading sewer pipe from a flatbed truck and was electrocuted when the boom cable of a truck mounted crane contacted an overhead high voltage line. A crane truck was backed up to the rear of the flatbed and the victim was to help position the sewer pipes on the ground and unhook the wire rope choker from the pipes after the crane operator lowered them to the ground. After the third pipe had been lowered to the ground, the victim was positioning it by grasping the pipe and wire rope choker and pulling. The boom cable contacted the overhead power line and a blue flame arced between the pipe the victim was holding and the pipes which were previously unloaded. Advanced cardiac life support was begun within 8 to 10 minutes, but the victim could not be resuscitated. He was employed by a large construction company which held safety meetings weekly on job sites. Recommendations arising from this accident included the enforcement of all regulations concerning crane operations in the vicinity of overhead power lines, using an observer to help crane operators maintain the required clearance from overhead power lines, exercising extreme care when working with extensible, hydraulic booms near high voltage lines, and establishing contract requirements incorporating safety into their planning when construction projects are undertaken.
• Content Notes:
  Publication date provided by the authoring office. There is no publication date indicated on the resource.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Electric Injuries Electricity Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Construction-industry Construction-Search Construction-workers Electric-power-transmission-lines Electrical-hazards Electrical-shock FACE-87-13 OSHA Region 4 Safety-practices
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Electrocution
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE8713
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00174328
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB88-154448
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 87-13, 1986 Dec ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1987
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1986/10/23
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4efa96889ddd292a2d9663b0418cd8d016ef57e86611798ccdc7b736a37dbec2704b8c168e01954c496dead2a372ed4d7f54de2f9fa27484499a04c102e53310
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/164468/cdc_164468_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 203.45 KB ]