Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202674073 - Employee Suffers an Electrical Shock

Accident Summary Nr: 202674073 -- Report ID: 0352410 -- Event Date: 08/06/2012
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
316610096	08/07/2012	1731	238210	Shure-Line Electrical Inc

Abstract: At approximately 8:15 a.m., on August 6, 2012 Employee #1, a sub-contractor employee, arrived to repair the power line that was going to the irrigation system. Employee #1 had been sent to the seed company since he had worked there before and was most familiar with the site. Employee #1 along with another employee from the Seed Company removed the water that was in the hole since it had rained the night before. Once the water had been removed, Employee #1 had the Seed Company employee remove their lock and he applied his lock. Employee #1 then went back to the hole and verified no power was on the line. Employee #1 then proceeded to cut the lines and roll them back out of the hole and verified the wires coming from the well head. Then he verified the wire coming from "the disconnect." Employee #1 wanted to verify voltage on all three phases so he removed his lock and turned "the disconnect" back on and verified that he had all three phases and 480 volts was present across all three phases. He then went back to the disconnect and removed the fuses from the B & C phases, turned the disconnect back on, and went back to the hole to verify the A phase. Employee #1 does not remember anything that happened after that.

Keywords: ELECTRIC SWITCH, POWER LINE WORKER, ELECTRICIAN, ELECTRIC SHOCK

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	316610096			Hospitalized injury	Electric Shock	Electrical and electronic technicians	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Fatality Cause: Electric shock, other and unknown cause

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