Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200031441 - Employee electrocuted while servicing chiller unit

Accident Summary Nr: 200031441 -- Report ID: 0521700 -- Event Date: 08/31/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
304086788	09/01/2001	1711	0	Bogot Services, Inc

Abstract: At 10:15 a.m. on August 31, 2001, Employee #1 arrived at a building in Chicago where he was to perform a regularly scheduled preventive maintenance check on the chiller units. Upon his arrival, the building engineer informed him that the #3 fan motor was not working and gave him access to the chiller fans. At approximately 4:00 p.m., a janitor found Employee #1, dead, lying between two fan motors. The disconnect for the #3 fan motor was open. The junction box below the #4 fan motor disconnect was also open and the wires coming from it had been cut. A pair of wire cutters with burn marks on the handle were found next to Employee #1, who also had burn marks on his right hand. The equipment being worked on had not been locked out.

Keywords: BURN, MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, ELECTRICAL, WORK RULES, ELECTROCUTED, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICAL WORK, LOCKOUT, ELEC CIRC PART--MISC

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	304086788			Fatality	Electric Shock	Occupation not reported

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