Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202539953 - Employee Is Burned When Circuit Breaker Explodes

Accident Summary Nr: 202539953 -- Report ID: 0950641 -- Event Date: 09/23/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300869054	09/26/2008	7349	561720	California Facility

Abstract: At approximately 10:00 a.m. on September 23, 2008, Employee #1, a certified electrician, was told by his boss to change a circuit breaker on a panel. The location of the incident site is a maintenance room in a hangar with 4160-V sub-station (Jeffries three-phase 4160-V transformer) for furnace distribution. The particular line Employee #1 worked on is a 480-V and 200-amp circuit breaker. Employee #1 planed to turn the power off and take off one circuit breaker and use this one to replace a nonworking one on another panel. The switch on circuit breaker exploded when Employee #1 tried to turn the power off. Employee #1 caught on fire and was seriously burned. Employee #1 suffered second-degree and third-degree burns and was hospitalized until December 8, 2008.

Keywords: BURN, ELECTRICIAN, EXPLOSION, CIRCUIT BREAKER, ELECTRICAL CABINET, ELECTRICAL FAULT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	300869054			Hospitalized injury	Burn/Scald(Heat)	Electricians

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