Chief Lineman Electrocuted After Contacting 4,200 Volts While Repairing A Downed Power Line

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On March 6, 1993, a 47-year-old male power company chief lineman was electrocuted after making contact with 4,200 volts from an energized power line. The incident occurred when the victim was preparing to splice a length of copper wire to a power line that had broken during a storm. Although the line was thought to have been de-energized, feedback energy was present in the line from an energized transformer bank. The lineman was electrocuted after taking hold of the hanging line to begin the repair. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers and employees must insure that personal protective equipment such as insulating gloves are consistently used. 2. All electrical lines and conductors should be tested to ensure that they are de-energized prior to working on or near them. 3. Employers should ensure that established company safety procedures are followed at all times.
• Content Notes:
  Formerly 93NJ055
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Electric Injuries
  • Electricity
  • Occupational Health
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Safety
  • Safety Management
  • Staff Development
• Keywords:
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-potential
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Safety-education
  • Safety-equipment
  • Safety-practices
  • Safety-measures
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Electrocution ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93NJ019
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026540
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-108663
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 93NJ019, 1993 Nov ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  22 - Utilities - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Resource Number:
  FACE-93NJ019
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170106/cdc_170106_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 75.68 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:423700d62b6b1716cf70d38341dcdd27f83bd9bb4b83ed719cfc3b833e30ec2b1cfea1a9ed8db8cf46ed1cb03fb6c2b558283e6c76b43377321e6ea124876827