Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14512024 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED PARTS

Accident Summary Nr: 14512024 -- Report ID: 0625400 -- Event Date: 05/28/1987
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
102448453	06/08/1987	4832	0	Krnn 93am Radio News Network

Abstract: A part-time employee, who worked for a radio station on a contract basis as on-call engineer, was working in the station's transmitter building. The employee had taken the cover off the main control cabinet of an RCA BTA5H broadcast transmitter. (It was a back-up transmitter.) He contacted energized parts of a three-phase, 120-volt circuit inside cabinet and was electrocuted.

Keywords: ELEC PROTECT EQUIP, ELECTRICAL, TELECOM WORK, E TC, ELECTROCUTED, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, ELECTRONIC TECHNICN, LOCKOUT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	102448453			Fatality	Electric Shock	Electronic repairers, communica. & indus. equip.

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