Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 165649.015 - Employee dies from head trauma when shocked, fell off ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 165649.015 -- Report ID: 0522500 -- Event Date: 04/10/2024
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1740414.015	04/10/2024		238210	Accurate Electric Construction Inc

Abstract: At 8:00 a.m. on April 10, 2024, an employee working as an electrician for an electrical contractor was working alone in a commercial building. The employee was using a 10-foot stepladder to access an area inside a drop ceiling to verify that the switching was correct out of an energized lighting contactor. The employee contacted an energized wire inside the circuit being checked above the ceiling. The employee was shocked causing him to fall off the stepladder approximately 10 feet to the concrete ground below. The employee died from head trauma from impact with the concrete ground.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Ceiling, Commercial Building, Concrete Floor, Concussion, Construction, Electric Shock, Electric current, Electrical Testing, Electrical Wire, Electrician, Energized, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Falling Object, Fracture, Head, Installing, Laceration, Ladder, Lighting Circuit, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Shock, Stepladder, Suspended Ceiling, Unsafe Position, Work Surface

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			1		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1740414.015	37	M	Fatality		Electricians	Distance of Fall: 10 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 10 feet Cause: Interior plumbing, ducting, electrical work Fatality Cause:

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