OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #753616
CAMPBELL LIGHTING SERVICES
EL CAJON, CA·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT IN FIXTURE
Investigation abstract
A lighting technician was rewiring fluorescent fixtures to eliminate the two cen ter lamps in each four-lamp fixture and replace them with a reflector. The emplo yee was making the modifications as part of an energy saving program. He was wor king with the 277-volt circuit energized. One of the circuit conductors was prot ruding between the raceway and the frame, energizing the fixture. The employee w as electrocuted when he contacted the fixture. Burns were found on the index fin gers of both his hands.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 533
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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