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Accident Summary Nr: 202492989 - Employee Suffers Electrical Shock, Falls and Sustains a Conc

Accident Summary Nr: 202492989 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 12/20/2011
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
314575119	12/30/2011	1731	238210	North State Electric Inc

Abstract: At approximately 11:21 a.m. on December 20, 2011 Employee #1 of North State Electric Inc., was seriously injured while finishing putting in the last of the lighting fixtures. Employee #1 had been previously installing the last 8 fixtures on an emergency lighting circuit prior to the accident. Employee #1 was getting ready to install the final light of the general lighting circuit for one of the office suites. As he was prepping the ceiling to install the lighting fixture he came into accidental contact with the hot wire of the fixture whip (277 volts). Employee #1 fell and sustained a concussion.

Keywords: LIGHTING FIXTURE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, FALL, CONCUSSION

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		8

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	314575119			Hospitalized injury	Concussion	Electricians' apprentices	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 6 feet Cause: Installing equipment (HVAC and other) Fatality Cause: Fall from/with ladder

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