OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14308027
JAMES KOHL & SON INC.
JERSEY CITY, NJ·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Electric Shock (10)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- SHOCK (13)
- Source of injury
- ELEC APPARAT/WIRING (15)
- Occupation
- Electricians (575)
- Human factor
- LOCKOUT/TAGOUT PROCED MALFUNC (13)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.