Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201353232 - Employee electrocuted while working on switch gear box

Accident Summary Nr: 201353232 -- Report ID: 0419700 -- Event Date: 09/29/2006
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310028006	09/29/2006	1731	238210	Simoneau Electric, Llc

Abstract: Employee #1, an apprentice electrician, was part of a crew that was installing an electrical conduit from an electrical switch gear box to a new transformer at a recently constructed school. He and a coworker dug a 3 ft square hole beside the switch gear box in which to locate some buried utility lines. Employee #1 asked his coworker to hand him a rigid, 40 in. long by 4 in. in diameter galvanized pipe with a 90 degree bend. The coworker gave him the pipe and then walked to the company truck to get a tape measure. Standing in the hole they had dug, Employee #1 was inserting the pipe into the switch gear box when it contacted live, 14,400-volt electrical parts within the box. Employee #1 was electrocuted. Neither he nor his coworkers had received training about the potential hazards of working in the vicinity of energized parts, or in how to avoid such hazards. In addition, none of the employees was that any of the parts were energized.

Keywords: INSTALLING, WORK RULES, ELECTRICIAN, ELECTROCUTED, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICAL WORK, ELEC CIRC PART--MISC, ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR, ELECTRICAL BOX

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	310028006			Fatality	Electric Shock	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Interior plumbing, ducting, electrical work Fatality Cause: Electrocution by touching exposed wire/source

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