Contact with electrical current
Contractor (electrician) was working in building. It is unknown just what happened. The electrician contacted energized conductors while installing an electrical circuit.
William ArnessController
MSHA Controller ID: M14351
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 1
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2006
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other controllers with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 590 controllers with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Kyle R Wolinski1fatal1 total
- Brent E Reed1fatal1 total
- Ivan D Barry1fatal1 total
- Marguarite Carroll1fatal1 total
- William Arnessthis controller1fatal1 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA controllers with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
Top causes
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality
Incident timeline
2006
1 (1f)