Incident date: 2023-08-14
NAICS industry code: 221122

Employees were installing an inline pole to increase the ground clearance of a sagging power line. Once the new pole was in place, the employee in the bucket truck attached the energized line to the jib on the new pole. As the employees finished emplacing the new pole, the energized line (7,620 volts) broke loose from the jib on the new pole. Due to the sag in the energized wire, it dropped low enough to contact the boom of the digger derrick truck. Two employees standing next to the truck sustained an electrical shock.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: low