OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #809582
ELECTRICAL,CORD SET,ELECTROCUTED,ELECTRIC SAW,E C,GROUND FAULT,EQUIPMENT GROUNDING
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT
Investigation abstract
A CREW OF EMPLOYEES WAS RENOVATING AN AREA OF A TEXTILE PLANT. AN ELECTRICIAN AN ICIAN PULLED THE TRIGGER SWITCH AGAIN. THE HELPER THEN NOTICED THAT THE ELECTRIC IAN WAS MUMBLING AND TREMBLING AND TRIED TO PULL HIM FROM THE PIPE. BECAUSE THE ELECTRICIAN'S LEGS WERE LOCKED AROUND THE PIPE, THE HELPER COULD NOT FREE HIM. T HEREFORE, HE UNPLUGGED THE SAW, AND THE ELECTRICIAN FELL FROM THE PIPE. AN AUTOP SY REVEALED THAT THE ELECTRICIAN HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED. D HIS HELPER WERE REROUTING CONDUIT IN ONE ROOM OF THE PLANT. THE ELECTRICIAN WA S STRADDLING A CHILL WATER PIPE THAT WAS 12 INCHES TO 15 INCHES IN DIAMETER. HE WAS 128 INCHES ABOVE THE FLOOR, USING A RECIPROCATING SAW TO CUT THROUGH THE OLD CONDUIT. THIS SAW CAUSED TOO MUCH VIBRATION, SO THE ELECTRICIAN SWITCHED TO A B AND SAW. THIS SAW WAS CONNECTED TO A PERMANENT RECEPTACLE OUTLET IN ANOTHER ROOM THROUGH THREE EXTENSION CORD SETS, WHICH TOTALED ABOUT 300 FEET IN LENGTH. THE ELECTRICIAN PULLED THE TRIGGER SWITCH ON THE BAND SAW, AND NOTHING HAPPENED. HE ASKED THE HELPER IF THE SAW WAS PLUGGED IN. THE HELPER SAID "YES," SO THE ELECTR
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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