OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14496848
ELECTRICAL,CPR,ELECTROCUTED,E C,GROUND FAULT,EQUIPMENT GROUNDING,ELEC EQUIPMENT--MISC
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT IN CONCRETE VIBRATOR
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN ELECTRIC CONCRETE VIBRATOR TO FINISH A CONCRETE FORM FO ED EMPLOYEE REVIVED SUFFICIENTLY TO STAND UP, BUT WAS TOLD TO LIE DOWN. HE AGAIN TRIED TO GET UP, HAVING GREATER DIFFICULTY THE SECOND TIME, AND LOST CONSCIOUSN ESS. CARDIO-PULMONARY RESUSCITATION WAS APPLIED, AND THE INJURED EMPLOYEE WAS RE VIVED. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED OF ELECTROCUTION. R A MANHOLE. HE HAD BEEN USING THIS EQUIPMENT ON AND OFF FOR ABOUT 45 MINUTES WH EN AN APPARENT GROUND FAULT IN THE VIBRATOR CAUSED HIM TO RECEIVE AN ELECTRIC SH OCK. THE FOREMAN FOR THE JOB (THE EMPLOYEE'S BROTHER) HAD JUST DELIVERED THE LAS T OF THE CONCRETE TO THE FORM, PARKED THE FORKLIFT HE WAS USING, AND WALKED ABOU T 6 FEET FROM THE FORM. HE THEN HEARD HIS BROTHER CALL OUT FOR HELP. THE FOREMAN TURNED AND SAW THE EMPLOYEE FALL ON HIS BACK, HOLDING THE CONCRETE VIBRATOR AND SHAKING. THE FOREMAN DISCONNECTED THE VIBRATOR FROM ITS RECEPTACLE; AND, WITH T HE HELP OF ANOTHER WORKER, GOT THE INJURED EMPLOYEE DOWN TO THE FLOOR. THE INJUR
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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