Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201792439 - Electric Shock - Contact with Energized Conductor

Accident Summary Nr: 201792439 -- Report ID: 0950644 -- Event Date: 09/29/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126078989	09/29/1999	1731	238210	Lawson Electric

Abstract: Three employees of an electrical contractor were installing 277-volt florescent lighting fixtures on an existing circuit. Employee #1 was a nonjourneyman electrician with 3 years and 9 months of electrical experience. (He was enrolled in a recognized craft training program.) He and one of the other two employees climbed onto an open cable tray so that they could open the top of an enclosed cable tray to gain access to the lighting circuit conductors. The cable tray with the lighting circuit was more than 3.4 meters above a screen-install platform. The employees were not using fall arrest equipment. After assisting Employee #1 in removing the cover from the cable tray, the second employee departed, but noticed that the fluorescent lights were on. Employee #1 cut the two lighting circuit conductors without apparent incident. However, as he was stripping the energized conductor, he received an electric shock, which caused him to hit his head on a disconnect handle directly above him and fall through the suspended ceiling to the screen-install platform. He was electrocuted.

Keywords: LIGHTING CIRCUIT, E GI IV, ELECTRICAL, ELECTRICIAN, ELECTRICAL WORK, LOCKOUT, ELECTRIC SHOCK, FALL

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

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	126078989			Fatality	Electric Shock	Electricians

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