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Accident: 201036068 - Employee Burned By Electric Arc From Circuit Panel
Accident: 201036068 -- Report ID: 0950635 -- Event Date: 04/13/2004 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 305476723 | 08/12/2004 | 1731 | Richard L Schuetze Inc Dba Bolt Electric | ||||
| At 2:30 p.m. on April 13, 2004, Employee #1, a supervisor for an electrical contractor, was part of a group of workers at a former manufacturing plant that was being converted to a scrap yard by its new owner. Employee #1 and an electrician coworker shut off the 600-amp main breaker, catalog no. QSF 6053T/S2983A17, of a Sylvania electrical panel fed by a 120/240/208 Delta high leg so they could decide whether to modernize or replace the panel. Employee #1 then tried to remove a branch circuit breaker. He was using a screwdriver as a wedge to break the contact clips on the back of the circuit breaker from the busbars when an electrical arc occurred. Employee #1 sustained second-degree burns over 6 percent of his skin surface area that included portions of his head, neck, upper arms, and shoulders. At the time of the accident, he was wearing safety glasses and a short sleeve uniform, but no gloves or hard hat. The screwdriver apparently contacted a busbar behind the breaker, which was energized because one or more poles apparently did not pull free from their contact clips when the breaker was shut off. | |||||||
Keywords:
burn, electric arc, head, struck against, busbar, construction, circuit breaker, elec circ part--misc, hand tool
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Manufacturing plant | Alteration or rehabilitation | Under $50,000 | 1 | ||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
| 1 | 305476723 | Hospitalized injury | Burn/Scald(Heat) | Supervisors; electricians & power transm. install. | |||