OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14547616
HOMER ELECTRIC ASSOCS
HOMER, AK—
Event description
ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED CONDUCTOR
Investigation abstract
A five-person crew was assigned to remove a three-phase switching cabinet. Two o burns to his left leg and both wrists. He was hospitalized for his injuries. f the three phase conductors supplying this cabinet were to be abandoned, and th e third phase was to be used for a new single-phase transformer. The transformer was to be installed at the site of the retired switching cabinet. The conductor s in the energized switching cabinet were mismarked. Consequently, one of the em ployees disconnected the wrong conductors. Instead of disconnecting a load-side connection in the cabinet, he had disconnected a 14.4-kilovolt-to-ground power s upply cable and had laid it alongside the cabinet. He then picked up the cable, which he believed to be deenergized. He received an electric shock and sustained
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 10
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 75
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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