OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14421473
E GI V,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,ATTACHMENT PLUG,ELECTRIC CORD,EQUIPMENT APPROVAL
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
A DRILLING COMPANY HAD COMPLETED A DRILLING OPERATION AND WAS PREPARING TO MOVE AROUND HIS ARM. THE EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED. TO A NEW LOCATION. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES WAS REMOVING A LIGHT CORD FROM A MUD TAN K. THE ELECTRIC CORD HAD TWO MALE ENDS--ONE END WAS PLUGGED INTO AN OUTLET IN TH E MAIN TANK; THE OTHER END WAS CONNECTED TO THE LIGHTS IN THE SECOND TANK. THE E MPLOYEE WENT TO THE SECOND TANK AND DISCONNECTED THE LIGHTS. HE THEN RETURNED TO THE MAIN TANK AND, WITH THE CORD STILL PLUGGED IN, PULLED THE ELECTRIC CORD FRO M THE SECOND TANK INTO THE MAIN TANK. A WITNESS STATED THAT THE EMPLOYEE CALLED OUT TO DEENERGIZE THE LIGHTS. THE WITNESS DEENERGIZED THE CIRCUIT AND RAN BACK T O THE MAIN TANK. THERE, HE FOUND THE EMPLOYEE LYING ON THE CATWALK WITH THE CORD
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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