OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14456776
INTERMOUNTAIN ELECTRICAL SIGN INC
CLEARFIELD, UT—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK AND FALL - DIRECT CONTACT WITH LIVE PARTS
Investigation abstract
TWO EMPLOYEES WERE WORKING FROM METAL LADDERS ON AN OUTDOOR STORE SIGN. ONE OF T HE EMPLOYEES HAD DEENERGIZED THE SIGN SO THAT THEY COULD REPLACE SOME BURNT WIRI NG. THEY REENERGIZED THE SIGN TO SEE IF IT WAS WORKING. THEY DISCOVERED THAT SOM E LIGHTS WERE NOT LIT AND DETERMINED THAT ONE OF FOUR BALLASTS NEEDED TO BE REPL ACED. AS THEY WERE CHANGING THE BALLAST, THE EMPLOYEES RECEIVED ELECTRIC SHOCKS. ONE EMPLOYEE FELL ABOUT 10 FEET TO THE PARKING LOT BELOW. THE OTHER WAS NOT INJ URED, EXCEPT FOR THE ELECTRIC SHOCK. THE FIRST EMPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOS PITAL, WHERE HE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED. HE HAD BROKEN AN ARM WHEN HE LANDED ON THE PARKING LOT.
Victim
-
#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.