OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14385223
E GI IV,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,ELECTRICAL WORK,LOCKOUT,UNTRAINED,ELEC EQUIPMENT--MISC
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
THE OWNER OF A RESTAURANT WAS ADVISED BY A DISHWASHER OPERATOR THAT THERE WAS A 20-VOLT CIRCUIT AND HAD CONTACTED ENERGIZED PARTS OF THE SOLENOID. (A DISCONNECT ING SWITCH WAS MOUNTED ON THE DISHWASHER, WITHIN 1 FOOT OF WHERE THE OWNER WAS W ORKING.) PROBLEM WITH THE DISHWASHER. THE VALVE CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF THE WATER SOFTENE R INTO THE WASH CHAMBER WAS STUCK IN THE OPEN POSITION AND WAS ADMITTING A CONTI NUOUS FLOW OF WATER SOFTENER INTO THE WASHER. SINCE THIS WAS A "ROUTINE" PROBLEM , THE OWNER ATTEMPTED TO CORRECT THE MALFUNCTIONING VALVE RATHER THAN CALL A REP AIR WORKER. THE EMPLOYEES STATED THAT THE OWNER HAD PERFORMED THIS TASK MANY TIM ES BEFORE. AS THE FIRST STEP IN REPAIRING THE VALVE, WHICH WAS SIMPLY BLOCKED OP EN, THE OWNER WOULD REMOVE A SOLENOID MOUNTED ON THE VALVE. THIS TIME, AS HE REM OVED THE SOLENOID, THE OWNER WAS ELECTROCUTED. HE HAD FAILED TO DEENERGIZE THE 1
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 4
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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