Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200641355 - electric shock - contact with energized parts thru tool

Accident Summary Nr: 200641355 -- Report ID: 0627700 -- Event Date: 06/08/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
302390091	06/09/2000	1731	0	Temco Electric, Inc.

Abstract: A journeyman electrician and an apprentice were working on an interior finish construction project, removing 277-volt fluorescent lighting fixtures and replacing them with a string of temporary lights. The two employees were working in separate rooms. A junction box was in the ceiling above the wall that divided the two rooms. The panelboard containing the circuit breakers controlling the lighting circuits was 18.3 meters away and was not visible to the apprentice. The pair had been turning the circuits off and on. The apprentice electrician was standing on a 1.8-meter fiberglass ladder, holding a pair of 230-millimeter electrician's pliers. He apparently cut through an energized conductor while he was touching the steel ceiling grid. (The ceiling grid and the pliers each had a burn mark.) The apprentice was electrocuted.

Keywords: LIGHTING CIRCUIT, ELECTRICAL, INSULATED TOOL, ELECTRICIAN, ELECTROCUTED, ELECTRICAL WORK, LOCKOUT, E C

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation		Under $50,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	302390091			Fatality	Electric Shock	Electricians' apprentices

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