Inspection Detail

Inspection: 300870557 - Unison Electric

Inspection Information - Office: Los Angeles District Office

Investigation Summary

At 9:41 a.m. on May 12, 2009, a foreman and his coworkers were working for an electrical subcontractor in Burbank, CA. The company had been contracted to install light fixtures and conduit and rerun the feed lines in an existing circuit. The foreman and his coworkers were at the entrance door of a building, pushing a cart filled with conduit inside the building. As the foreman held the cart from the side where the cart and its carriage rotated, the front wheels of the cart hit the door threshold and shifted the cart forward. The foreman's fingers made contact with the rotating carriage of the cart when its load shifted down. The middle finger on the foreman's left hand was lacerated. He was treated and released in two hours, and he did not require hospitalization. A contributing causal factor was that the cart's locking pin was not installed when the cart was in its horizontal position.

Keywords: ELECTRICAL, FINGER, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICAL WORK, CAUGHT BETWEEN, E C, LACERATION, CART