jar546
Forum Coordinator
A grounded plug may have been the difference between life and death.
At 1:50 a.m. on July 16, 2022, an employee was closing an overhead door adjacent to a welding station at a fabricated metal manufacturing facility. A portable e lectric fan mounted on a pedestal was plugged into a wall receptacle at the over head door. Coworkers noticed several minutes later than the employee was sitting on a crate at the overhead door and his left arm was in contact with the portab le fan. When a coworker attempted to close the overhead door and moved the porta ble electric fan, he noticed an electric arc when contact between the fan and th e employee's arm was broken. A coworker initiated CPR and requested medical assi stance. The employee was transported to the local hospital where he died from th e electric shock injuries. It was determined that the portable cord run through a wire way hole was exposed to a sharp edge which cut the wire sheath and insult ation and exposed the bare conductor. The attachment plug was also missing the g round pin.
At 1:50 a.m. on July 16, 2022, an employee was closing an overhead door adjacent to a welding station at a fabricated metal manufacturing facility. A portable e lectric fan mounted on a pedestal was plugged into a wall receptacle at the over head door. Coworkers noticed several minutes later than the employee was sitting on a crate at the overhead door and his left arm was in contact with the portab le fan. When a coworker attempted to close the overhead door and moved the porta ble electric fan, he noticed an electric arc when contact between the fan and th e employee's arm was broken. A coworker initiated CPR and requested medical assi stance. The employee was transported to the local hospital where he died from th e electric shock injuries. It was determined that the portable cord run through a wire way hole was exposed to a sharp edge which cut the wire sheath and insult ation and exposed the bare conductor. The attachment plug was also missing the g round pin.