OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14480990
CARAVELLE POUR HOMME LTD.
JERSEY CITY, NJ·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED CONDUCTOR
Investigation abstract
A clothing store employee worked part time on Saturdays as a sales clerk and mai ntenance worker. One day he was assigned to move a three-phase, 120/240-volt, 20 0-ampere circuit breaker panelboard from an office hallway to a warehouse. He ha d finished connecting the panelboard to its supply conductors, and the panelboar d was energized. He was on an aluminum ladder, working on a circuit supplying of fice hallway lighting. Standing on the fourth step of the ladder, he was working inside a 2.6-meter-high false ceiling where the junction boxes were located. Th e employee contacted an energized conductor and fell from the ladder. He died ei ther from the electric shock or from injuries sustained in the fall.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 547
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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