OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221395338

CARTHAGE SYSTEM GENETICS, LLC.

HIGBEE, MO· 2021-09-23T00:00:00

Event: Agriculture, Cleaning, Current Leakage, Defective Equipment, Electric Shock, Electric current, Electrical, Electrical Fault, Electrocuted, Equipment Failure, Equipment Grounding, Equipment Operator, Ground Fault, Outlet, Water, Wet
NAICS: 112210
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #345547764
Employer profile: CARTHAGE SYSTEM GENETICS, LLC.
Summary number: 221395338
Report ID: 0728500

Event description

Worker operating power washer is electrocuted as GFCI fails

Investigation abstract

At 6:30 p.m. on September 23, 2021, an employee was working for a firm that helped farmers raise pigs from birth to slaughter. He was operating a 240-volt single phase Aladdin power washer to clean farrowing room #5. The ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) on the outlet he was using failed to activate. The employee received an electric shock from the electric current traveling down the hose and onto the wand. He was electrocuted.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 22 M

Event type
13

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