# Electrocutions, electric shocks at Southern Pine Electric Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2023087415` · 8/14/2023 · BREWTON, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocutions, electric shocks
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Pine Electric Cooperative
- **Location:** 2134 South Boulevard, BREWTON, ALABAMA, 36426
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

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.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*