OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #801787
SPRINGS INDUSTRIES, GRANBY MILLS
COLUMBIA, SC·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - FAILURE TO TEST FOR LOCKOUT CONDITION
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A METAL SCAFFOLD ON A CONCRETE FLOOR, REMOVING OLD E LECTRIC CONDUCTORS FROM A JUNCTION BOX. THERE WERE 36 CONDUCTORS IN THE BOX. THE CONDUCTORS WERE THOUGHT TO BE DEENERGIZED AND LOCKED OUT. UNFORTUNATELY, ONE 57 5-VOLT, 600-AMPERE CIRCUIT WAS NOT DEENERGIZED, AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTE D WHEN HE CONTACTED ONE OF THE CIRCUIT CONDUCTORS. THE CONDUCTORS HAD NOT BEEN T ESTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE ACTUALLY DEENERGIZED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 533
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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