OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #998187
PIER FOUNDRY & PATTERN SHOP INC
ST. PAUL, MN·
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK AND BURN - DIRECT CONTACT WITH LIVE PARTS
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING AS A FURNACE TENDER, OPERATING THE CONTROLS ON AN INDUCT IS SHOULDER. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED. IVE, TILT-POT, IRON MELTING FURNACE. THE CONTROLS FOR THE FURNACE WERE MOUNTED O N AN ENCLOSED PEDESTAL. BECAUSE OF A BROKEN COTTER PIN, THE POT-TILTING LEVER WO ULD NOT ENGAGE. THE EMPLOYEE REMOVED THE SCREWS AND THE SIDE OF THE CONSOLE TO R EPLACE THE COTTER PIN. HE HAD PERFORMED THIS PROCEDURE MANY TIMES BEFORE, BUT DI D NOT KNOW THAT THE ELECTRIC POWER FOR CONTROLS IN THE CONSOLE COULD BE DEENERGI ZED WITHOUT DEENERGIZING THE FURNACE. AS HE WAS TRYING TO REPLACE THE PIN, HE CR OUCHED TO REACH UP INTO THE CONSOLE. HIS FOOT THEN SLIPPED, ALLOWING HIM TO FALL AGAINST A 120-VOLT TERMINAL BOARD. HE RECEIVED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK AND BURNS TO H
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 766
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 2
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