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Echo Powerline LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Beaver, Oklahoma · Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control · NAICS 221121

1inspections
1citation items
$11,400current penalties
Jan 23, 2017last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Echo Powerline LLC in Oklahoma one time.

It opened on Jan 23, 2017 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Beaver.

In all, OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

The proposed penalties came to $12,675; today they stand at $11,400, 10% less.

Among utility employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $0 penalty. Echo Powerline LLC averages $11,400 across 1 cited inspection.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Echo Powerline LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2017 to 2017
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 342059631 OPENED JAN 23, 2017Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 107 employees at the site · Closed Aug 19, 2021

1420 Highway 412, Beaver, OK 73932 · Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Jan 22, 2017 (fatal): Employee is electrocuted while pulling electrical line

At abour 5:15 p.m. on January 22, 2017, an employee was assisting in pulling an electrical line to be raised and hung on a power pole. While workers were pulling the electrical line, the line came loose from a snag and flung up into an overhead transmission line that was energized. The employee was electrocuted.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1926.964(b)(1) · Overhead lines and live-line barehand work
 Serious$12,675$11,400May 15, 2017Final

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1926.964 · Overhead lines and live-line barehand work

29 CFR 1926.964(b)(1)

(1) Tension stringing method. When lines that employees are installing or removing can contact energized parts, the employer shall use the tension-stringing method, barriers, or other equivalent measures to minimize the possibility that conductors and cables the employees are installing or removing will contact energized power lines or equipment.

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