OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14516439
SUPERIOR PRODUCTS CO.
PALMETTO, FL·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT IN ATTACHMENT PLUG
Investigation abstract
A MACHINE OPERATOR WAS OPERATING A PIPE MACHINE THAT WAS USED TO MANUFACTURE CON CRETE PIPE PRODUCTS. THREE FORMS HAD BEEN MOUNTED ON A 12-FOOT-DIAMETER PLATFORM . TWO OF THE FORMS HAD VIBRATORS MOUNTED ON THEIR SIDES TO SETTLE THE POURED CON CRETE. THE 240-VOLT, THREE-PHASE VIBRATORS WERE CONNECTED TO THEIR SUPPLY BY HEA VY FLEXIBLE POWER CORDS. AN ATTACHMENT PLUG ON AN EXTENSION CORD SET SUPPLYING O NE OF THE POWER CORDS WAS MISWIRED IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO ENERGIZE THE FRAME OF THE VIBRATOR (AND ALL METAL OBJECTS BONDED TO IT). THE MACHINE OPERATOR WAS ELEC TROCUTED WHILE HE WAS OPERATING THE MACHINE.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 717
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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