OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221536410
ZIMM'S INDUSTRIAL REPAIR, INC.
LONG BEACH, CA—
Event description
Employee is killed by electrocution
Investigation abstract
At 4:45 a.m. on January 27, 2023, an employee, the owner of the company, was removing a buss bar on a 575-volt electrical pillar cabinet as part of a demolition project. He received a verbal clearance that the cabinet had been shut off and de-energized. As he was descending a portable ladder to open the cabinet's side panel, he contacted a live wire and suffered an arc flash electrocution. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 65 M
- Event type
- 13
- Occupation code
- 577
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