Accident: 201610672 - Electric Shock - Direct Contact With Overhead Line

A line-clearance tree trimmer was in an aerial lift trimming trees away from overhead power, cable television, and telephone lines. Apparently, as the employee started to raise the bucket, he hooked the cable television line on the controls, trapping them in a position raising the bucket. As he was trying to lift the cable from the controls, the employee continued to be elevated into the three 12-kilovolt power line conductors above him. He received an electric shock and sustained multiple burns where he contacted the three conductors. The ground worker lowered the injured employee, started first aid, and summoned emergency medical services. The injured employee was hospitalized in a burn center.

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Accident: 800409 - Electric Shock - Direct Contact With Overhead Line

A crew of three cable television workers was lashing a cable television cable to a utility pole. One employee was in an aerial lift; another employee was on the ground assisting; and the third employee was about 0.4 kilometers away, directing traffic. The ground worker noticed the employee in the aerial lift slumped over in the bucket, lying on the controls unconscious. The aerial lift bucket was moving in the direction of an overhead power line. The employees on the ground could not safely reach the emergency shutoff. The bucket went into the power line, electrocuting the employee inside.

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Accident: 101350262 - One Killed, One Injured When Lift Basket Crushed

At approximately 3:00 p.m. on March 31, 1998, Employees #1 and #2 were greasing the stanchions of elevator #4 under the edge of the flight deck of the USS John F. Kennedy. They were standing in the basket of a JLG aerial lift on the elevator #4 platform (hanger deck level), with the boom extended to the underside of the flight deck. After approximately 25 minutes, Employees #1 and #2 were lowering themselves to the hanger deck level when the elevator unexpectedly ascended toward the flight deck. Both employees were crushed under the lip of the flight deck while they were in the basket. Employee #1 died as a result of his injuries; Employee #2 sustained multiple injuries, for which he was hospitalized.

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Accident: 820449 - Dies When Crushed Between Lift And Bridge

While operating the controls of a JLG lift, Employee #1 had his back toward the bridge. When he arrived at the bridge section, the basket of the lift hit the overhang jack and kept moving upward, crushing him between the lift and the jack. Employee #1 died.

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Accident: 14319941 - Killed When Caught Between Scissor Lift Components

Employee #1 was operating a scissor lift on which the safety latches had been broken off from the control levers. He leaned over the front of the lift platform, inadvertently contacting the control levers and raising the platform. His upper body was crushed between the lift railing and an overhead crane rail. Employee #1 died.

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Accident: 170742621 - Burn - Electrical Fault To Overhead Power Line

A pressure washer operator for a painting company was working from an aerial lift about 40 feet above the ground. He was pressure washing the side of a building. A 7200-volt overhead power line located 8.5 feet from the side of the building ran parallel to the wall of the building near the work location. After having worked at this location for about 2 hours, the employee repositioned the aerial lift, and the metal railing on the platform contacted the power line. The current from the fault caused the platform's controls to explode and burned the hose on the washer in two. The exploding controls ignited the front of the employee's shirt. The arcing stopped when the cutout on the power line opened. The employee, who was still conscious, put out his burning shirt and awaited the arrival of emergency medical services. He stayed away from the power line and did not lower the aerial lift because he thought it might collapse. A power line crew from the electric utility company owning the line lowered the employee to the ground, then emergency medical services administered first aid and transported him to a hospital. He was hospitalized overnight for treatment of second degree burns to his stomach and for observation.

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Accident: 789883 - Electric Shock - Contact With Overhead Line Thru Boom

A yard worker had parked a rubber-tired Simon MP 60 aerial lift. Using the lower controls, the employee raised its boom. The access door to these controls opened upward and obscured the employee's view in that direction. With his view obscured and his lack of experience in operating the equipment, he raised the boom into contact with a 12.4-kilovolt overhead power line located 37 feet above the parked vehicle. (Although he had been warned to keep the equipment away from the power line, no mention was made of the 10-foot required clearance.) Two of the tires on the vehicle were blown out and a third was severely burned. The employee apparently received an electric shock and was treated and released.

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