OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14505226
E GI IV,ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,ELECTRIC PUMP,LOCKOUT,GROUND FAULT,EQUIPMENT GROUNDING,WATER
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT IN SUMP PUMP
Investigation abstract
An employee was helping to move a malfunctioning sump pump. The employee grabbed the 10-millimeter-diameter metal lifting cable that was attached to the submerg ed pump to hook it onto a tooth of a track hoe bucket so that the pump could be lifted out of the water. When he grabbed the cable, he received an electric shoc k, apparently from a ground fault in the pump. His feet slipped out from under h im on the slippery rock surface, and he fell backwards. His head struck the base of a rebar, and he died of his injuries. The examining physicians determined th at the cause of death was electrocution.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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