Sixteen-year-old Electrical-Contractor Laborer Electrocuted--Texas

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 16-year-old laborer employed by an electrical construction and maintenance company was electrocuted as he was coiling a deenergized power line which contacted an energized overhead power line. The worker was standing on the ground at the time of the accident. The task was being performed by three summer hires who had not received training for the task. The employer had been contracted to salvage the conductors and other electrical equipment from a deenergized, three phase, 440-volt power line that ran through an inactive oil field. The crew leader began to cut tie wires holding the conductors to the cross arm mounted insulators. The two 16-year-old summer hires on the ground gathered the conductors as they fell and coiled them up. As the crew leader released the conductors from the insulators, tension on the remaining conductors was increased, causing a nearby pole to lean into an energized 7,200-volt power line
  
  the salvage conductors became energized, electrocuting one of the 16-year-old workers on the ground. Recommendations were made which included adequate hazard evaluations of each worksite
  
  proper training of employees
  
  development, implementation, and enforcement of a comprehensive written safety program
  
  and compliance with child labor laws.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Electric Injuries Electricity Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-Search Electrical-hazards Electrical-workers FACE-96-19 OSHA Region 3 Safety-research
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Electrocution ; Youth
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9619
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Texas ; OSHA Region 6
• 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:
  5 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Castillo, Dawn N. ; Hause, Mathew G. ; Pettit, Theodore A. ; Stout, Nancy A.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00233662
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-129993
• 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:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1996/06/18
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d9e36874892175d16c5bf23c99339263d9aac28716752e4efeb531690850b06fc04794049951aa6fb4978761b7a9d7b64141fe6550f206886990298060d302ab
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167423/cdc_167423_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 262.55 KB ]