OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14482327
PASQUALE ELECTRIC CO.
NEW HAVEN, WV·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH LIVE CONDUCTOR THRU TOOL
Investigation abstract
A supervisor and two other employees entered a motor control center to inspect a r cables coming through the wall. Employee #1 stated that he was told to cut the top left and bottom right cables. Using a pair of Klein ratchet-type wire cutte rs, he cut into a 2300-volt cable leading to the pulverizer feed amplifier and i nstead of the correct cables, which were 6 meters away. Employee #1 was electroc uted. (He was later pronounced dead at the scene by the coroner.) Employee #2 ju mped back from the resulting electrical fault and struck his arm against a conde nser pipe. boiler feed pump circuit to ensure that it was deenergized so that they could c ut some cables that were part of the circuit. The three employees attached a com e-along around a beam at the motor end of one of the cables. One of the employee s (employee #2) left to get more chokers while the other two employees inspected the two sets of cables in the condenser pit area of the boiler. When he returne d, employee #2 was told by his coworker that the supervisor had showed him the e xact cables to cut. These two employees then went back to cut the cables. Employ ee #1 climbed down onto the lower cable tray that was supporting two sets of fou
Victims (5)
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 22
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#983 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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