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Case study · MSHA Record #219862930002
Electrician fatality
August 4, 1986 at 12:30 PM
Pioneer Materials Incorporated
· Las Vegas Building Materials Inc
· Clark County, NV
Investigator narrative
I NAME ATTEMPTE8 TO START A 440 V POWER BOX BY TAKING THE COVER OFF THE BOX AND PUTTING HIS HAND INTO THE BOX, MAKING CONTACT WITH THE POWER SOURCE IN THE BOX AND THE METAL OIL LINES BEHIND HI M CAUSING A DIR9CT LINE THROUGH HIS BODY. THE ACCIDENT WAS FATAL.
Record details
- Classification
- ELECTRICAL
- Accident type
- Contact with electrical current
- Activity at time
- Electrical Maintenance
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Source of injury
- ELECTRICAL APPARATUS,NEC
- Nature of injury
- ELECT SHOCK,ELECTROCUTION
- Body part affected
- BODY SYSTEMS
- Experience at this mine
- 1 year
- Experience in this job
- 17 years
- Mine type
- Surface
- Sector
- Metal/Non-Metal
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