Hispanic Painter Electrocuted When the Ladder He Was Carrying Contacted a 13,200 Volt Overhead Powerline - North Carolina: FACE 2003-08

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On February 24, 2003, a 32-year-old Hispanic painter (the victim) was electrocuted when the metal ladder he was carrying contacted an overhead powerline. Prior to the incident, the victim and his co-workers had been painting a private residence. As the workers were beginning to clean up the job site at the end of the work day, the victim picked up a metal ladder to carry it to the work van. While the victim was carrying the ladder upright to the van, the foreman and several co-workers verbally warned him about the overhead powerline. Several seconds later, the victim's ladder made contact with the overhead powerline and the victim fell to the ground. The foreman and co-workers ran to assist the victim. After a co-worker made several unsuccessful attempts to call for assistance, the foreman went to a nearby home to call 911. When the foreman returned, he performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the victim who had no pulse and was not breathing. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and police personnel responded to the scene. The victim was transported via ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead in the emergency room.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Electric Injuries
  • Electricity
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Paint
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Painters
  • Construction-workers
  • Construction-equipment
  • Construction-industry
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction ; Electrocution ; Hispanic ; Hispanic - Construction ; Foreign Born Workers
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200308
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• 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 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Romano, Nancy T. ; Higgins, Doloris N.
• Volume:
  2003
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025543
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100562
• 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
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  2003/02/24
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2003-08
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167317/cdc_167317_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 311.78 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7b09b88c48687af90b8f1898ef55541d03d86407ac614fd3cdd3d7e37c180a84d21c1b49c0b0490a562430db5f9c429a79df1bb1be54873dc5220eace5d860de