Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221392459

WILLIAMS SPECIALTY SERVICES, LLC

Event
Collapse, Contact, Cutting, Electric Shock, Electrical Box, Electrocuted, Insulation
NAICS
238320
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345535223
Employer profile
WILLIAMS SPECIALTY SERVICES, LLC
Summary number
221392459
Report ID
0420100
Project type
B
Construction end-use
F

Event description

Employee falls into electrical box and is electrocuted and k

Investigation abstract

At 8:45 a.m. on September 16, 2021, an employee measured the layout of a precipitator box to cut ridged foam insulation board to match while standing on the box. The top of the box collapsed under the employee, who fell into the box and received a fifty-thousand-volt direct current shock. The employee was electrocuted and killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 29 M

    Event type
    13
    Occupation code
    593

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