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    All per OSHA's website for sic 4911:

    01/21/2000 Sacramento Municipal Utility District-Union
    A power line worker was working on an electrical system at an Air Force base. He had been dispatched to repair an electrical system supplying parking lot lights. A day earlier, another employee did a makeshift repair and got the lighting circuit working. The power line worker assigned to make the permanent repair was unfamiliar with the electrical cabinet supplying the lighting, so an Air Force base electrical employee accompanied him to help explain. The power line worker determined what repairs were necessary and planned to return with the parts. However, before leaving, he decided to check the tension of the handle on a fused circuit breaker. The screwdriver he used to perform this check slipped as he was prying on the handle, and the tool contacted an energized part, causing an electrical fault. The ensuing electric arc burned the employee. He received first aid treatment at the scene before being hospitalized for his injuries. ONE FINE OF $350.

    ---One Injured (1)---

    02/02/2000 Tuscon Electric Power Company-Union
    A power line worker was in a vault, cutting into an energized 14-kilovolt line. He had not checked the line to verify that it was deenergized. An electrical fault occurred, and the ensuing electric arc burned the employee. NO FINE

    ---One injured (2)---

    03/22/2000 Red Simpson Inc.-Non Union
    Three employees were installing seven utility poles for an overhead power line. The employees had installed two poles and were moving their vehicles down the line to drop the third pole at the next location. Each crewmember drove a vehicle. The foreman drove a pickup. Another crewmember drove a digger-derrick with a trailer transporting the 13.7-meter-long poles, which weighed about 725 kilograms apiece. The third crewmember drove an aerial lift truck. The foreman and the digger-derrick driver parked their trucks and began to unload the pole. Each of the two employees pulled a 610-millimeter-long stake pin holding the poles onto the trailer. The foreman used a cant hook to dislodge the pole from the trailer. As the pole was rolling off the trailer, the third employee walked around the corner of the load. The pole struck him across the chest, knocked him to the ground, and rolled across his head, killing him. NO FINE

    ---One Death (2/1)---

    04/07/2000 Southern California Edison-Union
    A four-employee electric utility crew was restoring power for a large residential area. The employees were working on a bank of 16.3-kilovolt transformers, replacing a bad cable. Two of the employees (Employees #1 and #2) were working on one of the transformers, which had its energized primary terminals exposed. While they were tightening some bolts on the transformer, an electrical fault occurred. The ensuing electric arc burned the employees and ignited their clothing. Another crewmember (Employee #3), who was working on another transformer, heard the arcing and ran to the injured employees. When he found their clothing burning, he began to put out the fire with his bare hands. An emergency medical services team transported the injured employees to a hospital, where they were treated for extensive second- and third-degree burns. Employee #1 was burned over more than 50 percent of his body. Employee #2 was burned over 35 percent of his body. Employee #3, who had also been burned, was treated and released. Employee #1 died in the hospital burn unit 15 days after the accident. A visual inspection of the transformer after the accident indicated that a phase-to-phase fault had occurred at the transformer's primary-side terminals. FINED 4 SERIOUS FINES FOR $29,800

    ---Two Injuries, One Death (4/2)---

    05/08/2000 Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation-Union
    A power line worker was working from an elevated aerial lift. He was bringing a conductor from the ground to a dead-end connection at the pole for installation of a new service. He was holding one end of the new conductor, and the other end was touching the ground. The employee was not wearing rubber insulating gloves or using insulating protective equipment on the 4800-volt overhead power line on the pole. As he was maneuvering the aerial lift, an uninsulated portion of the bucket contacted the power line. The employee was electrocuted. ONE FINE FOR $5,000

    ---One Death (4/3)---

    06/07/2000 Commonwealth Edison Company-Union
    A power line worker was standing on the ground, coiling an old overhead power line. The line was in contact with another power line, which became energized. The power line worker was electrocuted. ONE FINE FOR $7,000 AND BROUGHT DOWN TO $3,500

    ---One Death (4/4)---

    06/15/2000 B&W Utilities Service-Non Union
    A four-employee crew was assigned to upgrade the underground distribution line running from a residential meter base to a pad-mounted transformer. The crew foreman was working on the 240/120-volt transformer secondary. Two helpers on the crew were assisting him. As the foreman was making a connection to an energized terminal, he slipped and fell onto energized parts of the transformer. He became wedged between the transformer and the cable-television pedestal and could not break free of the energized parts. He was electrocuted. THREE FINES FOR $16,800 AND BROUGHT DOWN TO TWO FINES FOR $7,280

    ---One Death (4/5)---

    06/29/2000 Harlan Electric Company-Union
    A power line worker was installing new switches and crossmembers. He contacted an energized part and was electrocuted. TWO WILLFULL FINES FOR $140,000 AND WAS BROUGHT DOWN TO ONE UNCLASSIFIED FOR $7,000

    ---One Death (4/6)---

    07/17/2000 Singing River Electric Power Association-Non Union
    Two electric utility employees were responding to an electrical outage on the west side a highway. The employees were standing behind their work vehicle, which was parked facing north in the southbound lane. A vehicle traveling northbound at an extremely high rate of speed crossed the center line and struck both employees. They died of injuries sustained in the accident. ONE SERIOUS FINE FOR $4,900

    ---Two Deaths (4/8)---

    07/26/2000 Chelan County PUD #1
    A power line crew was installing a new utility pole at the intersection of two streets. One of the employees on the crew was hit by a motor vehicle driven by an impaired driver. He died of his injuries 10 days after the accident.

    ---One Death (4/9)---

    08/17/2000 Southern California Edison-Union
    Employee #1 put a ladder up against a temporary utility pole for service of the weather head. While ascending the ladder the pole started to lean twisting the ladder around. He jumped approximately 5 ft and landed on his left ankle sustaining a minor ankle injury.

    ---One Injury (5/9)---

    08/18/2000 Oklahoma Gas & Electric-Non Union
    When a two-person power line crew arrived at a work site, the employees noticed that the B-phase of a 7200-volt overhead power line was down. They positioned their aerial lift under the power line near the utility pole supporting the line. Working on the ground, the crew spliced the downed conductor on the east side of the pole. They then pulled the conductor toward the pole. One employee entered the aerial lift bucket and elevated himself into position at the top of the pole. He raised the conductor to the top of the pole; and, as he was pulling on it, he contacted the A-phase conductor located on the north side of the pole. He was electrocuted. FOUR SERIOUS FINES FOR $18,000

    ---One Death (5/10)---

    10/10/2000 Matanuska Electric Association Inc.-Union
    Three journeyman power line workers were replacing a circuit breaker in a substation. They had to loosen an insulator to test it. One of the employees was unable to reach the bolts, which were along the side of the circuit breaker, so one of the other two employees reached into the right side of the cabinet. He contacted energized parts in the adjacent bay. He received an electric shock and fell into the vault below the two bays. His clothing had ignited. He crawled out of the vault without assistance, and his coworkers extinguished his burning clothing. The injured employee was hospitalized. One of his coworkers was also burned, apparently as he was dousing the flames. FIVE SERIOUS FINES WORTH $16,450

    ---Two Injuries (7/10)---

    11/02/2000 Tampa Electric Company-Union
    A power line worker was on a stepladder in a substation, replacing damaged bolts on disconnect switches on a 7620-volt power line. As he was checking the disconnect switch for tightness, a coworker closed the disconnect using a switch stick. The power line worker, who was touching energized parts of the switch, was electrocuted. TWO FINES WORTH $14,000 AND BROUGHT DOWN TO ONE FINE WORTH $7,000

    ---One Death (7/11)---

    12/19/2000 Connecticut Light & Power Company-Union
    A power line crew was repairing a storm-damaged utility pole and a 345-kilovolt overhead power line supported by the pole. The power line was deenergized and grounded. The line conductors were bonded together and grounded to a pole ground. There were two static wires supported by the structure, but they were not grounded or bonded. The employees moved the static wire from the damaged pole to an adjacent center pole. After the crew moved the static wire, two employees went up in an aerial lift to the center pole to connect the static wire to a fitting on the pole. One of employees removed his leather work gloves and grabbed the static wire. He was electrocuted. TWO SERIOUS FINES WORTH $10,000

    ---One Death (7/12)---

    7 total Injuries and 12 Deaths listed on OSHA's site for sic 4911 (Electric Services) for 2000

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