Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200630192 - ELECTRIC SHOCK - GROUND FAULT IN CONDUIT

Accident Summary Nr: 200630192 -- Report ID: 0316400 -- Event Date: 07/21/1998
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
116524802	07/21/1998	1751	0	H & S Construction Inc

Abstract: An employee was moving a 19-millimeter-diameter thin-wall conduit containing energized conductors. He was trying to move the conduit just enough so that some 50-millimeter by 150-millimeter metal studs could be installed adjacent to some wood studs. It was very hot and humid, and the employee was wet with perspiration. He had removed or loosened the straps securing the conduit and the screws in a coupler that had joined two sections of the conduit. The employee was working from a fiberglass stepladder. Leaning against the wall with the upper part of his body above the grid work of the ceiling, the employee began jerking and pulling on the conduit. The conduit separated at the coupler, pinching a 120-volt conductor, which energized the conduit. The employee could not let go until he fell backwards off the ladder. He was electrocuted.

Keywords: E GI IV, ELECTRICAL, CONDUIT, ELECTROCUTED, ELECTRICAL WORK, EQUIPMENT FAILURE, LOCKOUT, GROUND FAULT, EQUIPMENT GROUNDING

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$500,000 to $1,000,000	1		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	116524802			Fatality	Electric Shock	Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installing interior walls, ceilings, doors Fatality Cause: Electrocution by equipment contacting wire

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