OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #802728

ELEC INSULATION,ELECTRICAL,E GI VII,ELECTROCUTED,LIGHTING FIXTURE,GROUND FAULT,EQUIPMENT GROUNDING

1987-09-09T00:00:00

Event: ELEC INSULATION,ELECTRICAL,E GI VII,ELECTROCUTED,LIGHTING FIXTURE,GROUND FAULT,EQUIPMENT GROUNDING
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 802728
Report ID: 454510

Event description

ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT IN LIGHTING FIXTURE

Investigation abstract

An employee was painting a steel beam located across the roof of a basement. He was standing on a 3-meter wooden ladder, painting with a brush, and he was wet w ith perspiration. The ladder was resting on a dry concrete floor. He contacted a 2.4-meter-long 120-volt fluorescent lighting fixture and was electrocuted. Inve stigation revealed that the equipment grounding conductor wire had been cut insi de the fixture and that the conductor insulation was dry, brittle, and cracked.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 49 M

Nature of injury
10

Part of body
4

Event type
13

Source
15

Occupation code
579

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
18

Task assigned
1

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