ThyssenKrupp Industrial Services Canada Inc., was fined $160K for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. A supervisor was fined $11K.  In 2009, a worker sustained serious electrical burns when a a bare conductor touched the side of of the electrical panel on which he was working.  The Ministry of Labour found [...]

The office of Mine Health Safety and Training reports that the 43 year-old miner came in contact with an energized electrical circuit at the Silver Oak Mine in Boone County. He suffered first, second and third degree burns on his upper body and is in critical but stable condition in a burn unit.  The cause of [...]

OSHA has  issued six citations for willful safety violations and levied a $378K fine following an arc flash incident involving a wind farm technician.  The company failed to ensure that those technicians that were working in wind farm towers affixed their own energy isolation devices ( personal lock and tag devices) on the ground-level turbine switch gear [...]

The company, which provides servicing and maintenance for the wind tower industry, was cited for “exposing maintenance technicians to electrical hazards from the unexpected energization of transformers in three wind turbine towers.” OSHA issued  six citations for safety violations carrying up to $374K in fines, after a  wind farm employee was severly burned in 2010.  Most wind [...]

A 25 year-old apprentice lineman badly burned over 50% of his body in an electrical incident in October 2010 is continuing his rehabilitation.  The lineman was operating a scissor lift at an electrical substation when electricity arced and touched the corner of the lift. The electricity traveled to the ground and back, resulting in severe burns. Without electrical [...]

An Essex company has been fined £130,000 following the investigation of an electrical explosion that severely burned a worker in October, 2008 as he was investigating a fault with an energy meter when he disturbed a loose connection and a wire was exposed leading to an arc flash.  The worker’s clothing caught fire and he sustained [...]

The claims journal reported on Oct. 15 the Oct. 12 incident in the MSHA report below but called this a shock when it is actually an arc flash.  There could be shock involved but the amount of burn on the body indicates it is likely a clothing ignition from an arc flash. Click here to [...]

On October 10, 2010 three electrical contractor employees working at the Martin Marietta Mine in Snyder, OK were arc flashed installing ground fault indicator lights on a live 800 AMP breaker.  From the MSHA report, all three workers were transported to the hospital and one died two days later.  Most of the arc flash fatalities are [...]

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Building firm fined after electrical blast
By Catriona Webster

Published: 03/09/2010

An Aberdeen building firm was fined £9,000 yesterday after an employee was badly burned in an electrical explosion.

Sheriff James Tierney ordered the owners of Graeme W. Cheyne (Builders) Ltd to pay an additional £4,000 in compensation to joiner George Forbes at a hearing at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.

The company, of Sugarhouse Lane, previously admitted health and safety failures that led to Mr Forbes, 62, handling a redundant electricity power supply device known as a fuse cut-out that was still live.

Mr Forbes was working on a construction site at 238-242 Holburn Street on November 11, 2008, when he tried to remove the fuse cut-out to put up some plasterboard.

The cut-out was connected to a 415-volt cable and Mr Forbes was badly burned when he touched it.

He was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where he stayed for nine days and was treated for burns to his hand and face.

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation revealed that the cable was twisted, causing a short-circuit that created enough energy to melt the cable and create a small explosion.

Read more: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1900622?UserKey=#ixzz10ZRkPX1K”

The California Department of Industrial Relations has levied a $176,000 fine on Pacific Gas & Electric following a review of a Cal-OSHA report that alleged lax enforcement of safety rules to protect employees following the electrocution death of a PG&E utility worker.  The worker was upgrading a transformer in a vault that contained 12,000-volt power lines.  [...]