OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #765990
E GI II,METAL WIRE,ELECTRICAL,ELECTRICIAN,ELECTROCUTED,PANELBOARD,BUSBAR,ELECTRICAL WORK,LOCKOUT,ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - CONTACT WITH LIVE PARTS THRU CONDUCTOR
Investigation abstract
An employee was pulling abandoned conductors from a conduit that was still conne ning conductors then apparently slipped in the conduit and contacted the energiz ed busbars. The employee touched the other end of the conductor and was electroc uted. His body was not discovered until about 2:00 AM the next day. cted to an energized panelboard. The 750-kcmil stranded copper conductors were a bout 6 meters long. The three phase conductors had formerly supplied to the pane lboard. The abandoned conductors had been disconnected from busbars inside the p anelboard 5 days earlier. The ends of the conductors had been cut off about 50 m illimeters above the bus connectors, and the severed ends were removed. New powe r supply conductors had been run to the panelboard and connected to the busbars to energize it. The employee, who was working alone, had pulled one conductor wi th a power winch and had tied the pull rope to a second conductor. The two remai
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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