Accident: 202023263 - Electric Shock - Contact With Overhead Line Thru Metal Light

An employee placed a portable lighting unit in a parking lot of a nightclub to provide lighting for departing customers. The employee extended the 9.1-meter-tall light, and it contacted a 7500-volt overhead power line. The employee, who was holding onto a wench, maneuvering the light, was electrocuted.

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Accident: 200782084 - Electric Shock - Contact With Energized Parts

A 21-year-old maintenance worker for an amusement park was found floating face down in a shallow pool of water following his attempt to change a lighting fixture. He had been electrocuted.

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Accident: 123273211 - Electric Shock - Contact With Overhead Line Thru Tie Wire

Two power line workers were working from a utility pole. One of them was tying down a 7200-volt overhead power line conductor with a preformed tie wire. He was wearing rubber insulating gloves. The second employee was beneath him, putting tension on the conductor. The first employee lost his grip on the tie wire, allowing it to unwind. The tie wire hit him under his arm, and he was electrocuted.

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Accident: 119947778 - Electric Shock - Direct Contact With Energized Parts

A mechanic was clearing a jam in a pin-setting machine at a bowling alley. He contacted energized parts of the machine and was electrocuted. He was declared dead at the scene of the accident.

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Accident: 14534358 - Electric Shock - Contact With Overhead Line

A bus washer had cleaned a bus and had driven it to a parking area at a touring company's bus compound. He was parking the bus between a van and another bus near a utility pole. As he was backing the bus, it ran over the guy for the pole. The utility pole moved, and one of the phase conductors of an overhead power line supported by the pole broke. The conductor started a fire when it hit the ground. The bus washer was electrocuted as he tried to extinguish the fire with a wooden stick.

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Accident: 14411326 - Electric Shock - Contact With Overhead Line Thru Strand

A communications employee was standing in water in a ditch, holding 6-millimeter-diameter, galvanized steel suspension strand. Another employee was working from on a utility pole. The second employee was installing a bracket for the new strand. An existing, corroded bracket on the utility pole broke, allowing the neutral conductor for an overhead power line to contact the 120-volt circuit for a streetlight. The streetlighting conductor then contacted the strand, energizing it. The employee holding the strand, who was not wearing rubber insulating gloves, was electrocuted.

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Accident: 14242465 - Electric Shock - Direct Contact With Energized Conductor

An employee was working on a monorail hoist. He had not deenergized or locked out the 480-volt disconnect switch for the hoist before he started working. The employee contacted the hoist's runway conductors and was electrocuted.

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