OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14379457
ELEC PROTECT EQUIP,PROTECTIVE GROUNDING,ELECTRICAL,ELECTRIC SWITCH,POWER LINE WORKER,ELECTROCUTED,E PTD,CIRCUIT BREAKER,ELEC UTILITY WORK
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING FROM AN AERIAL LIFT, GROUNDING THE LINE SIDE OF AN OIL C IRCUIT BREAKER. HE POSITIONED THE BUCKET BETWEEN THE SOUTH PHASE AND THE CENTER PHASE AND HAD ATTACHED ONE END OF THE PROTECTIVE GROUND TO THE STEEL STRUCTURE S ERVING AS GROUND. THE GROUNDING CABLE PASSED BETWEEN THE INSULATOR AND THE BLADE OF A SWITCH. THIS POSITION WOULD HAVE INTERFERED WITH THE REMOVAL OF THE SWITCH . THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT, BUT IT WAS APPARENT THAT THE EMPLOYEE TRIED TO PASS THE LOOSE END OF THE GROUNDING CABLE AROUND THE BLADE OF THE SWIT CH. IN SO DOING, HE APPARENTLY CONTACTED THE ENERGIZED BLADE OF THE SWITCH AND W AS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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