OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14336945
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,PROTECTIVE GROUNDING,ELECTRICAL,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,ELEC UTILITY WORK,TRANSFORMER
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
A TWO-PERSON ELECTRIC UTILITY CREW, CONSISTING OF A POWER LINE WORKER AND HIS HE LPER, WAS ENERGIZING A NEW TRANSFORMER INSTALLATION. THERE WERE THREE 14.4-KILOV OLT, SINGLE-PHASE TRANSFORMERS (24.49 KILOVOLTS, PHASE TO PHASE). THE FIRST PHAS E HAD BEEN ENERGIZED, AND THE CREW BEGAN WORK ON THE SECOND PHASE. THE HELPER UN LOCKED THE TRANSFORMER ENCLOSURE AND RAISED THE LID. HE THEN TURNED TO STEP ASID E. AS HE TURNED, HE HEARD A BUZZING NOISE. HE TURNED BACK TO THE TRANSFORMER AND SAW THE LINE WORKER ON THE GROUND WITH THE GROUNDING CABLE ACROSS HIS LEG. THE LINE WORKER HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED. THE APPARENT SOURCE OF CONTACT WAS THE TRANSF ORMER, WHICH WAS ENERGIZED AT 2000 VOLTS.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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