OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14505341
METALLURGICAL LABORATORIES INC
KANSAS CITY, MO—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON THE TRAVEL MOTOR FOR AN OVERHEAD BRIDGE CRANE AND ITS ASSOCIATED CONTROLS. COWORKERS ASSISTED HIM IN ENERGIZING AND DEENERGIZING THE MOTOR CIRCUITS. THE EMPLOYEE DESCENDED THE SCAFFOLD HE HAD BEEN WORKING FROM TO OPERATE THE PENDANT CONTROL FOR THE CRANE. SINCE THE TRAVEL MOTOR WAS STILL NOT OPERATING PROPERLY, THE EMPLOYEE ASCENDED THE SCAFFOLD, BUT WITHOUT DEENERGIZING THE MOTOR CIRCUITS. A MINUTE OR SO LATER, HIS COWORKERS HEARD SOMETHING FALL AN D FOUND THE EMPLOYEE DEAD ON THE SCAFFOLD. THE CORONER FOUND TWO ELECTRICAL BURN S ON THE EMPLOYEE'S HANDS AND CONCLUDED THAT THE EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 64 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 1
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