Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 003 Hazard:

29 CFR 1926.416(a)(3): Before work began the employer did not ascertain by inquiry, direct observation, or by instruments, whether any part of an energized electric power circuit, exposed or concealed, was so located that the performance of the work could bring a person, tool, or machine into physical or electrical contact with the energized electric power circuit: a. At 2000 Estero Blvd, Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on or about 07/25/2023, an employee working within a below grade electrical junction box was exposed to an electrocution hazard, in that, before work began the employee did not determine whether the uninsulated hand tool (cutting pliers) could have come into physical or electrical contact with an energized electrical circuit.