OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221656499

ACCURATE ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION INC

LEWIS CENTER, OH· 2024-04-10T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Ceiling, Commercial Building, Concrete Floor, Concussion, Construction, Electric Shock, Electric current, Electrical Testing, Electrical Wire, Electrician, Energized, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Falling Object, Fracture, Head, Installing, Laceration, Ladder, Lighting Circuit, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Shock, Stepladder, Suspended Ceiling, Unsafe Position, Work Surface
NAICS: 238210
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347404147
Employer profile: ACCURATE ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION INC
Summary number: 221656499
Report ID: 0522500
Project type: A
Construction end-use: C

Event description

Employee dies from head trauma when shocked, fell off ladder

Investigation abstract

At 8:00 a.m. on April 10, 2024, an employee working as an electrician for an electrical contractor was working alone in a commercial building. The employee was using a 10-foot stepladder to access an area inside a drop ceiling to verify that the switching was correct out of an energized lighting contactor. The employee contacted an energized wire inside the circuit being checked above the ceiling. The employee was shocked causing him to fall off the stepladder approximately 10 feet to the concrete ground below. The employee died from head trauma from impact with the concrete ground.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 37 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
575

Fall distance
10

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