OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14570634
E GI IV,ELECTRICAL,CPR,ELECTROCUTED,RUNWAY CONDUCTOR,LOCKOUT,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING A LIGHT BULB THAT WAS NOT IN HIS WORKING AREA. THE EMPL ABBED THEM TO HOIST HIMSELF UP SO HE COULD REACH THE LIGHT. OTHER EMPLOYEES SAW HIM HANGING FROM THE RAILS AND CALLED OUT TO HIM WITH NO RESPONSE. ANOTHER EMPLO YEE SAW THAT ONE OF THE DISCONNECTS WAS STILL CLOSED AND OPENED IT. THE INJURED EMPLOYEE THEN FELL INTO THE AERIAL LIFT. BECAUSE NO ONE COULD FIND THE EMERGENCY VALVE, A THIRD EMPLOYEE CLIMBED THE LIFT AND ADMINISTERED CARDIOPULMONARY RESUS CITATION. IN SPITE OF THESE EFFORTS, THE INJURED EMPLOYEE DIED OF ELECTROCUTION. OYEE HAD NO TOOLS OR LOCKS WITH HIM. THERE WERE THREE DISCONNECTS TO OPEN TO DEE NERGIZE POWER TO THE HOIST RUNWAY CONDUCTORS IN THE VICINITY OF THE LIGHT BULB. TWO OF THE DISCONNECTS WERE LATER FOUND TO BE OPEN; HOWEVER, THE THIRD WAS NOT. (ALL THE DISCONNECTS WERE MARKED, AND EACH HAS A SCHEMATIC.) THE EMPLOYEE USED A TIGER MANLIFT (AERIAL LIFT) TO GET TO THE WORKING POSITION; BUT, FULLY EXTENDED TO ITS 22-FOOT MAXIMUM, IT WAS TOO SHORT TO REACH THE BULB, WHICH WAS AT A HEIG HT OF 27 FEET, 5 INCHES. THE EMPLOYEE THEN PLACED THE NEW LIGHT BULB ABOVE THE T HREE RUNWAY CONDUCTORS. HE WENT BETWEEN TWO OF THE RUNWAY CONDUCTOR RAILS AND GR
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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