OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14348262
E GI V,ELECTRICAL,REVERSE POLARITY,CORD SET,ELECTROCUTED,ATTACHMENT PLUG,ELECTRIC SHOCK,ELEC PORT TOOL--MISC
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - ACCIDENTALLY ENERGIZED ELECTRIC TOOL FRAME
Investigation abstract
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MORNING, SOME EMPLOYEES DAMAGED AN EXTENSION CORD SET, APPA NDS AND DROPPED THE ROUTER TO THE FLOOR. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WHO WAS WEARING SNEAKE RS PICKED UP THE ROUTER AND HANDED IT TO EMPLOYEE #1. WHEN EMPLOYEE #1 LEANED AG AINST A GROUNDED METAL RAILING, HE WAS ELECTROCUTED. RENTLY BY RUNNING OVER IT WITH A MOBILE HOME UNIT. INSTEAD OF TAKING THE CORD SE T TO MAINTENANCE FOR REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT, ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES IN THE AREA ATT EMPTED TO REPAIR THE CORD. HIS REPAIR INTERCHANGED THE IDENTIFIED GROUNDED (WHIT E) CONDUCTOR AND THE EQUIPMENT GROUNDING (GREEN) CONDUCTOR AT THE ATTACHMENT PLU G ON THE EXTENSION CORD SET. AT APPROXIMATELY 3 PM, EMPLOYEE #2 ATTEMPTED TO USE A 120-VOLT ELECTRIC ROUTER THAT WAS ENERGIZED THROUGH THIS EXTENSION CORD SET. THE CORD SET WAS PLUGGED INTO A PENDANT RECEPTACLE THAT HAD REVERSED POLARITY. T HE FRAME OF THE ROUTER BECAME ENERGIZED, AND EMPLOYEE #2 FELT A TINGLE IN HIS HA
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 29
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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