Inspection Detail

Inspection: 124623778 - Amf Electric

Inspection Information - Office: Utah Division Of Occupational Safety And Health

Inspection Nr: 124623778

Report ID: 0854910

Date Opened: 01/10/1994

Site Address:
Amf Electric
State Office Building
Salt Lake City, UT 84114

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 2285, Sandy, UT 84091

Union Status: NonUnion

SIC:1731

NAICS: 0

Inspection Type: Accident

Scope: Complete

Advanced Notice: N

Ownership: Private

Safety/Health: Safety

Close Conference: 01/14/1994

Planning Guide: Safety-Construction

Emphasis:

Case Closed: 08/15/1994

Related Activity
Type	Activity Nr	Safety	Health
Accident	361531858

Violation Summary
Violations/Penalties	Serious	Willful	Repeat	Other	Unclass	Total
Initial Violations	1					1
Current Violations	1					1
Initial Penalty	$875	$0	$0	$0	$0	$875
Current Penalty	$875	$0	$0	$0	$0	$875
FTA Penalty	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0

Violation Items
#	Citation ID	Citaton Type	Standard Cited	Issuance Date	Abatement Due Date	Current Penalty	Initial Penalty	FTA Penalty	Contest	Latest Event	Note
1.	01001	Serious	19260416 A04	02/10/1994	02/14/1994	$875	$875	$0		-

Investigation Summary

Investigation Nr: 170562896

Event: 01/08/1994

BURN - ELECTRICAL FAULT IN PANELBOARD

An electrical contractor was remodeling the electrical service to a state office building. The contractor's employees were moving panelboards to a new electrical room located on the same floor. A shutdown of the building had been scheduled for that day and the following day; however, a large group had arranged a meeting for the auditorium in the building 9 months earlier. A decision was apparently made to continue work without locking out the electrical service. (After the accident, there was disagreement between the State and the contractor over whether the State ordered the contractor to work with the circuits energized. In any event, the State's project coordinator, who is responsible for authorizing electrical outages, did not check on the status of the lockout for that day.) One of the contractor's employees was connecting a neutral conductor to the middle panel's busbar mounting bracket, apparently because the conductor was loose and because the contractor was concerned that it might contact the busbar. The owner of the contracting firm was installing a circuit breaker in the middle panel. Although the circuit breaker he was working on was open, the main disconnect switch for the 480-volt, 1200-ampere, three-phase, four-wire panel was closed. As the contractor, whose only protective equipment was a pair of safety glasses, was moving out away from the panel, an electrical fault involving all three phases occurred. The contractor was burned on the left side of his face by the ensuing electric arc. He was hospitalized for his injuries. The other employee, who was kneeling low near the neutral connection to the panel's busbar frame, was not injured. The cause of the electrical fault was not determined conclusively. However, there was circumstantial evidence that it occurred when an 8-inch-long metal tie wire dropped into the panel.

Keywords: ELECTRIC ARC, E GI IV, ELECTRICAL, ELECTRICAL FAULT, BURN, ELEC PROTECT EQUIP, ELECTRICIAN, PANELBOARD, ELECTRICAL WORK, LOCKOUT

Investigated Inspection
#	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	124623778			Fatality	Burn/Scald(Heat)	Electricians

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