Hispanic Painter Electrocuted When the Metal Ladder He was Repositioning Contacted an Overhead Powerline - North Carolina

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On February 13, 2003, a 24-year-old Hispanic painter (the victim) was electrocuted when the metal ladder he was repositioning contacted an overhead powerline. The victim and his co-workers were painting several two-story townhouses. The victim attempted to reposition the 28-foot-aluminum extension ladder he was using. Several seconds later, the foreman heard a buzzing sound and observed the victim gripping his ladder before falling to the ground. The co-workers ran to help the victim while the foreman called 911. The employees performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the victim, who had no pulse and was not breathing. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and police personnel responded within 5 minutes. EMS personnel continued CPR on the victim while transporting him to the local hospital. The victim was pronounced dead in the hospital emergency room.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Electric Injuries Electricity Occupational Health Paint Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Electric-power-transmission-lines Electrical-hazards Electrical-shock Electrocutions Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 4 Painters 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/NIOSHFACE200310
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Construction
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  North 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:
  8 pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Romano, Nancy T.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025544
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100564
• 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:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2003/02/13
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:865a339c0fee97e28df65ade4ade441bec842b44f01a64484acf570c79879917e519eacfc3812af4cf201ed13a1f5184411502dc9281552688db2bdd1dd42d48
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167316/cdc_167316_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 499.91 KB ]