OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601468
FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION
ST. PETERSBURG, FL·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
A TWO-PERSON UNDERGROUND RESIDENTIAL DISTRIBUTION CREW FOR AN ELECTRIC UTILITY A TO THE RIGHT SIDE. AS HE WAS MANEUVERING THE CONDUCTOR INTO POSITION, HE LEANED OR FELL FORWARD, AND HIS CHEST CONTACTED THE TOP 120-VOLT BUSBAR AS HIS LEFT AR M CONTACTED A GROUND WIRE ABOVE HIS INSULATED GLOVE. THE EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUT ED. RRIVED AT A RESIDENTIAL AREA TO CONNECT UNDERGROUND WIRING FROM A PAD-MOUNTED TR ANSFORMER TO A PEDESTAL THEY WERE GOING TO INSTALL NEAR TWO NEWLY BUILT HOMES. O NE OF THE TWO EMPLOYEES, AN APPRENTICE POWER LINE WORKER, MADE THE CONNECTIONS O N THE PEDESTAL. HIS COWORKER, A JOURNEYMAN LINE WORKER, CHECKED OVER THE WORK, T HEN TOLD THE APPRENTICE THAT HE WAS GOING TO CONNECT THE INSTALLATION TO THE ENE RGIZED TRANSFORMER. THE JOURNEYMAN WENT TO THE PAD-MOUNTED TRANSFORMER, PUT ON E LBOW-LENGTH RUBBER INSULATING GLOVES, AND KNELT IN FRONT OF THE TRANSFORMER. HE THEN STARTED TO FEED THE NEUTRAL CONDUCTOR FROM THE LEFT SIDE OF THE TRANSFORMER
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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