OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14519581
OUACHITA COCA BOTTLING CO. INC.
MONROE, LA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT IN VENDING MACHINE
Investigation abstract
An employee of a soft drink bottling company was performing a service call at a municipal golf course pro shop. He was checking a soft drink vending machine tha t was not cooling. The soft drink machine was not grounded because it was connec ted to a receptacle outlet through an extension cord set that did not contain an equipment grounding conductor. (An adapter was being used with the machine's at tachment plug.) The employee pulled on the soft drink machine and, in the proces s, touched a grounded snack machine nearby. A ground fault in the soft drink mac hine had energized it, and the employee was electrocuted.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 519
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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