OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14518856
BAYOU STEEL CORPORATION
LA PLACE, LA—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS
Investigation abstract
A maintenance worker was assigned the job of performing a hi-pot test on Joslyn vacuum switches for a furnace at a foundry. The No. 2 furnace switch tower high- voltage supply had been deenergized. After the employee had set up the test equi pment on switch tower No. 2, he stepped across to switch tower No. 1, a distance of about 1.1 meters. This 33-kilovolt switch tower was still energized, and the employee contacted energized parts. He received an electric shock and fell from the tower to the ground, a distance of 3 meters. The employee died of electrocu tion.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 549
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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