OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14298590
JOHN LIPPINCOTT SERVICES, INC.
BOZMAN, MD·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
An employee arrived at work at 8:15 AM and began to pressure test an air conditi He received an electric shock, freed himself from contact with the pipe, and de scended the ladder. He was hospitalized for 2 days for his injuries. oner for leaks. He found the last leak on a 1.5-ton unit located in an attic cra wl space on the second floor. The employee placed a 1.8-meter-tall (6-foot-tall) fiberglass stepladder beneath the 483-millimeter by 559-millimeter (19-inch by 22-inch) opening and climbed the ladder to the second step from the top. Once th ere, he placed his rubber-handled crescent wrench onto a flare nut and tightened it. The 9-millimeter-diameter (0.38-inch-diameter) copper line started to bend, so he held the line with his right hand and pulled up on the wrench with his le ft hand. As he was doing this, his left shoulder contacted a 240-volt conductor.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 534
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 14
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.