Lineman Dies When He Contacts Energized Power Line in Puerto Rico

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A construction crew consisting of a supervisor, three class A linemen (including the victim), a first class lineman, a groundman, and two truck drivers were assigned the task of correcting a malfunction in a de-energized three-phase powerline. When the crew arrived at the worksite, they found that one of the three phases had broken and fallen to the ground. The supervisor instructed the victim to relocate the damaged phase on the crossarm of the pole to better balance the load on the crossarm. As the victim began to climb the pole he was assured by the supervisor that the powerlines had been de-energized. When he attempted to relocate the damaged line he contacted another phase, was shocked, and slumped backwards, prevented from falling by his safety belt. The powerlines at the worksite had been energized by backfeed electrical energy from a portable gas generator being used on the circuit.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date supplied by FACE program
  
  date does not appear on report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Electricity Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Electric-power-transmission-lines Electrical-conductivity Electrical-safety Electrical-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Electrocution
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9005
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Puerto Rico ; OSHA Regtion 2
• 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:
  4 pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024478
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-102128
• 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:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  22 - Utilities - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1989/09/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5257a0756d3cc556c98150fa7fb99985937781ea3e7c2a26daf725a1419674781b151df490864717741778e4162ea78be21bee2f316481615f5de032062aa015
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167322/cdc_167322_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 15.75 KB ]