OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #692681
CRAFT MACHINE WORKS, INC.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH POWER LINE IN SUBSTN
Investigation abstract
A SUPERVISOR FOR A BUSINESS SERVICES FIRM WAS SHOWN A SUBSTATION THAT HAD TO BE CIRCUIT. ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES STARTED TO WRAP AN INSULATOR ON THE 11-KILOVOLT L INE AND WAS ELECTROCUTED. PAINTED. HE WAS TOLD BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ELECTRIC UTILITY TO START ON THE STRUCTURE FOR A 34.5-KILOVOLT CIRCUIT, AS THIS CIRCUIT WOULD BE DEENERGIZED AND GROUNDED. HE WAS ALSO SHOWN AN 11-KILOVOLT CIRCUIT AND WAS TOLD NOT TO APPROACH IT BECAUSE IT WOULD BE ENERGIZED ACROSS THE TOP BUS. A FIVE-PERSON CREW WAS ASS IGNED TO PAINT THE STEEL STRUCTURE IN THE SUBSTATION TWO DAYS LATER. WHEN THE CR EW ARRIVED AT THE SUBSTATION, THE SUPERVISER, WHO HAD THE INSTRUCTIONS, WAS NOT THERE. ADDITIONALLY, HE HAD NOT COMMUNICATED THESE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CREW. THE CREW LEADER MISTAKENLY SENT THE CREW TO WORK ON THE STRUCTURE FOR THE ENERGIZED
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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