OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #816678
ELECTRICAL,E GI VI,ELECTROCUTED,ELEC CIRC PART--MISC,ELECTRICAL CABINET,BLIND REACHING
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE AT A MANUFACTURING PLANT HAD REGULARLY USED A KEY TO OPEN A DOOR TO ACCESS A BOILER ROOM FOR PERIODIC INSPECTIONS. THE KEY WAS KEPT ON TOP OF AN ELE CTRICAL CABINET. ONE DAY THE EMPLOYEE WENT TO GET THE KEY, AND IT WAS NOT IN ITS NORMAL POSITION ON TOP OF THE CABINET. IN LOOKING FOR THE KEY, THE EMPLOYEE HEL D THE DOOR OPEN WITH ONE HAND AND REACHED INTO THE CABINET WITH HIS OTHER HAND T O DETERMINE IF THE KEY HAD FALLEN INSIDE. THE EMPLOYEE CONTACTED A 480-VOLT COND UCTOR AND WAS ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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