OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14346613
E GI V,ELECTRICAL,CORD SET,ELECTROCUTED,ELECTRIC SAW,GROUND FAULT,EQUIPMENT GROUNDING,WATER
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT IN ELECTRIC SAW
Investigation abstract
An employee was cutting a section from a 76-millimeter-diameter (3-inch-diameter rrupter in the temporary circuit failed to open the circuit in response to the g round fault. The employee died of electrocution. ) copper pipe with a Milwaukee portable electric band saw. He was standing on a plank 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) above the floor. He had previously cut into the pip e without draining the water from it, and the band saw became wet and developed a ground fault. Other employees, who were working at ground level, added an ungr ounded extension cord to the temporary circuit, breaking the continuity of the e quipment grounding conductor. When the first employee picked up the band saw, he received an electric shock and yelled to the other employees to unplug it. When they did, the injured employee fell to the floor. The ground-fault circuit inte
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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