Hispanic Painter Electrocuted When the Aluminum Extension Ladder He was Positioning Contacted an Overhead Powerline - South Carolina

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On March 25, 2003, a Hispanic painter/caulker (the victim) was electrocuted when the aluminum 40-foot extension ladder he was attempting to re-position contacted a 13.8 kilovolt overhead powerline. The victim was a member of a five-man crew that had been subcontracted to paint and caulk windows and siding on a newly constructed three-story private residence. He had positioned his ladder between the side of the residence and a seven-foot-high wooden fence frame located seven feet, four inches from the side of the residence. A 13.8 kilovolt powerline was located approximately ten feet from the side of the residence, and 24 feet above ground level. The victim was working in an area approximately 26 feet above ground caulking windows and siding. He climbed down the ladder and began to re-position it on the side of the residence. One of the other crew members heard the victim yell and turned to see the victim trying to hold the ladder as it fell backward. As the ladder fell, it contacted the powerline. The victim was holding onto the ladder and was electrocuted. A worker for another contractor on site called 911 from a cell phone, then initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Emergency rescue personnel transported the victim to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead by the attending physician.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Electric Injuries Electricity Occupational Health Paint Race Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction-equipment Construction-workers Electrical-hazards Electrical-shock Electrocutions Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 4 Painters Racial-factors Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Electrocution ; Hispanic - Construction ; Foreign Born Workers
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200311
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  South Carolina ; 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:
  6 pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Romano, Nancy T.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025674
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-101452
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2003/03/25
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1e87a6854e61d23071ee2d12964250f88dc890ab4de3fde184acdd76259b25a2e923b67df01330eec2b5a8dd4f5e3556fd7abe7eaa4d400ec5df8cdf3a4d932f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167302/cdc_167302_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 38.89 KB ]