Construction Laborer Electrocuted At School Renovation Site

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On August 9, 1993, a 33-year-old male construction laborer was electrocuted while working in a public school building. The incident occurred in the entrance vestibule where a lighting fixture was hanging down by its electrical cable. At about 8:30 a.m., the victim was in the vestibule apparently carrying discarded tiles outside when a second worker heard him scream and found him clutching a garbage can for support. The second worker (who was the victim's brother and a police officer) went to his aid and started CPR when the victim went into cardiac arrest. It is not known how the victim contacted the electrical energy that killed him. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incident in the future, these safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers and employees should ensure that all electrical circuits are de-energized and tested before working on them. 2. Employers should develop, implement, and enforce an electrical lock-out, tag-out procedure. 3. Employers should conduct a job hazard analysis of all work activities with the participation of the workers.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Electric Injuries
  • Electricity
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Safety Management
  • Staff Development
• Keywords:
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-potential
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Safety-education
  • Safety-equipment
  • Safety-practices
  • Safety-measures
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Electrocution ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93NJ063
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026555
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-108669
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 93NJ063, 1994 Jun ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Resource Number:
  FACE-93NJ063
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170095/cdc_170095_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 80.44 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6809ef2912f8cb14e0af4bec06e5a355cbdbb4ed880d2653142936ea16783da0d192e5bb57df79d459fa71c2a5f705cb640a18a5fb054c80eb078a272a1946db