Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 120841.015 - Employee is injured by electrical shock and fall from ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 120841.015 -- Report ID: 0418300 -- Event Date: 10/08/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1438597.015	10/17/2019		445110	Johnson'S Giant Foods Inc.

Abstract: At 11:15 a.m. on October 8, 2019, an employee, a maintenance worker, was changing a ballast in a light fixture in a grocery store. The employee used a ladder to gain access to light fixtures located in the backroom of the store and discovered that the lights had bad ballast. The employee disconnected the bad ballast and was installing a new ballast into the fixture when he was shocked due to not deenergizing the store's 277 VAC electrical system. The employee was thrown from the ladder and was hospitalized for treatment of his injuries.

Keywords: Ballast--Lighting, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Changing, Electric Shock, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Ladder

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1438597.015	32	M	Hospitalized injury		Machinery maintenance occupations

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