OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14494090
L & A CORPORATION
EL PASO, TX·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED CONDUCTOR
Investigation abstract
An electrician's helper was tracing No. 12 AWG, 120-volt conductors in the attic of a home that was being remodeled. The helper, who had been in his job for 3 y ears but had had no training, was tracing existing conductors to a porch lightin g fixture that was not working. The journeyman electrician on the site found the conductors, but testing them was left with the helper. As he was using a voltag e tester to test the energized conductors, the helper contacted a conductor and was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 29
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 865
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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