OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #848275
RELIANCE ELEVATOR COMPANY
WILMETTE, IL·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
AN ELEVATOR REPAIR WORKER WAS WORKING IN AN ELEVATOR EQUIPMENT ROOM ON A ROUTINE CONTRACT MAINTENANCE VISIT. THE EQUIPMENT ROOM CONTAINED EXPOSED, ENERGIZED 120 /240-VOLT ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT. THE 56-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE, WHO HAD BEEN DETERMINED TO BE QUALIFIED FOR THE PURPOSE OF WORKING IN VAULTS OR ROOMS WITH EXPOSED ENERG IZED PARTS, WAS FOUND DEAD A DISTANCE OF SEVERAL FEET FROM THE EXPOSED ENERGIZED PARTS. THE CORONER FOUND NO ELECTRICAL BURN MARKS ON HIS BODY AND FOUND THAT HI S HEART APPEARED NORMAL. DESPITE THE LACK OF BURN MARKS, THE CORONER CONCLUDED T HAT THE EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 56 Male
- Nature of injury
- Electric Shock (10)
- Part of body
- OTHBODYSYS (31)
- Accident type
- RUBBED/ABRADED (7)
- Source of injury
- ELEC APPARAT/WIRING (15)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- ILLUMINATION (14)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.