Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201633062 - One employee killed, one burned when main assembly explodes

Accident Summary Nr: 201633062 -- Report ID: 1054112 -- Event Date: 07/22/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305557415	07/22/2002	3823	334513	Fouch Electric Manufacturing Co Inc
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305557381	07/22/2002	2041	311211	Cereal Food Processors Inc
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305557399	07/22/2002	1731	238210	Mccoy Electric Co Inc

Abstract: On July 22, 2002, Employee #1, a electrical estimator, was taken by Employee #2, a licensed electrician, to a flour mill to measure an electrical main busbar assembly in preparation for replacing a main circuit breaker. The two workers removed the front panel from the circuit breaker. The estimator then took a wooden ruler and was beginning to measure the assembly when an explosion occurred at the base of the circuit breaker. Employee #1 was killed and Employee #2 was hospitalized with serious burns.

Keywords: EXPLOSION, BURN, ELECTRICIAN, BUSBAR, ELECTRICAL CABINET, ELECTRICAL FAULT, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICAL WORK, CIRCUIT BREAKER

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Manufacturing plant		Alteration or rehabilitation		Under $50,000	1		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	305557415	Fatality	Burn/Scald(Heat)	Occupation not reported
2	305557381			Occupation not reported
3	305557399	Hospitalized injury	Burn/Scald(Heat)	Occupation not reported

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