21-Year-Old Groundman Electrocuted in Tennessee

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A 21 year old groundman employed by a electrical line maintenance and construction company was electrocuted when an aerial bucket boom contacted a 7200 volt power line while the groundman was opening a steel door on the truck. Two line construction and maintenance crews were finishing a project involving replacing 5000 feet of conductor wire and 19 utility poles. One crew was moving the new energized line from the temporary tie off positions to the permanent insulators and removing the old deenergized line when the accident occurred. An aerial boom truck was moved into place under the new line. One of the groundmen was on his way to get parts from this truck. The lineman in the bucket raised it to inspect the new connections when he contacted, with the boom, a 7200 volt energized line. The groundman simultaneously opened the steel door of the storage compartment of the truck and was electrocuted. Following this accident, it was recommended that employers develop written safe job procedures which are specific to the task. These would include consideration of the various safety hazards associated with positioning of an aerial boom truck, placement of line hoses and blankets, and identification of personal protective equipment to be used. Once the safety procedures are established, the employer should make certain that they are implemented and enforced by a qualified person at each job site.
• Content Notes:
  Publication date provided by the authoring office. There is no publication date indicated on the resource.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Electric Injuries Electricity Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Electric-power-transmission-lines Electrical-hazards Electrical-shock Electrical-workers FACE-86-46 OSHA Region 4 Safety-practices
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Electrocution
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE8646
• 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:00170395
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87-223319
• 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 86-46, 1986 Sep ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  22 - Utilities - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1986/04/09
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d1f714a32dbb3b96c85389d6d7089d19b3bf0450bf18524fd15c457cc9ffd1f9cbfbafe1f72282ba6d595e94a01909b56971f59b56a13465a71b667bf369ff07
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/164572/cdc_164572_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 188.97 KB ]