OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14308027
E GI IV,ELECTRICAL,ELECTRICIAN,ELECTROCUTED,PANELBOARD,ELECTRICAL WORK,CONDUCTIVE APPAREL,LOCKOUT
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS THRU BRACELET
Investigation abstract
AN ELECTRICIAN WAS INSTALLING ELECTRIC EXIT SIGNS AND EMERGENCY LIGHTING AT EXIT ES, UNTIL THE CIRCUIT WAS DEENERGIZED. (THE EMPLOYEE WAS ALSO WEARING A GOLD NEC KLACE, WHICH APPARENTLY WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN THE ELECTRICAL CONTACT SINCE THE EM PLOYEE RECEIVED BURNS TO HIS NECK.) THE EMPLOYEE DIED ABOUT 90 MINUTES LATER AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL. DOORS FOR A CHURCH. HE WAS WORKING IN A CRAWL SPACE WITH A 3-FOOT-BY-3-FOOT OPE NING IN A PANELBOARD. THE CRAWL SPACE WAS 7 FEET LONG, 4 FEET HIGH, AND 3 FEET D EEP. HE WAS SITTING ON TWO HORIZONTAL METAL PIPES AND HAD HIS UPPER BODY EXPOSED TO A VERTICAL METAL PIPE. THE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING A GOLD COBRA LINK BRACELET O N HIS RIGHT WRIST. HE WAS SPLICING 120-VOLT WIRING THAT HAD NOT BEEN DEENERGIZED . AS HE WAS WORKING, HIS BRACELET HOOKED A WIRE NUT CAPPING TWO CONDUCTORS. THE BRACELET CONTACTED THE CONDUCTORS AND BECAME WELDED TO THEM. THE EMPLOYEE RECEIV ED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK AND WAS NOT RELEASED FROM THE CIRCUIT FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUT
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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