OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14443600
RADISSON MARK PLAZA HOTEL
ALEXANDRIA, VA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - UNKNOWN CAUSE
Investigation abstract
AN AIR CONDITIONING UNIT SUPPLYING A CLUB IN A BUILDING WAS REPORTED TO BE MALFU NCTIONING. TWO EMPLOYEES WERE IN THE SHOP AT THE TIME. THE CONTROL PANEL LIGHT F OR THE UNIT WAS ON, INDICATING THAT THE FAN FOR THE UNIT WAS RUNNING. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES LEFT THE SHOP TO DETERMINE WHAT WAS WRONG. HE WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS I NSIDE THE AIR CONDITIONING UNIT. UPON BEING TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, HE RECOVERED CONSCIOUSNESS, BUT COULD NOT REMEMBER WHAT HAD HAPPENED. IT WAS REPORTED THAT HE SUFFERED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 549
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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