"man who died .... was electrocuted"

 

A man who died while working at the aluminum factory in the USA one morning during the week of May 10, 2020 appears to have been accidentally electrocuted, deputies said.

 

The deceased worker was electrocuted while working as a contractor at the aluminium factory, said the local County Sheriff’s Office. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

The deceased worked for an electrical contracting company. It wasn’t the first time he had done a job at (aluminium plant).

 

“(name omitted) was a frequent visitor to our facility, and many of our employees knew him well and admired him at work and in the community,” said, the aluminium company spokeswoman.

 

The death remains under investigation, the sheriff’s office said. The aluminium company, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the electrical contracting company where he was employed are also working together to investigate the deadly accident, the the aluminium company spokeswoman said. She declined to release more information about what happened.

 

The deceased was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union. The local business manager of IBEW, announced their worker’s death on the union’s Facebook page.

 

“I want to offer my deepest sympathy to Brother (name omitted) family, friends and co-workers who could not have prepared for their sudden loss,” he said. “I ask all of you to keep Brother (name omitted) in your thoughts and prayers."

 

We offer our sincere condolences to the deceased worker’s family, friends, and coworkers. We will update this story as more information is brought forth.

 

The use of outside contractors in our plants is commonplace. Long ago that was not necessarily the case where an aluminium plant had enough tradesmen to handle any project. The Aluminium Plant Safety Blog has posted numerous incidents involving electrocutions in our industry. Almost all of the cases occurred in older plants. This aluminium plant is over 50 years old. Which means that the plant has various types of electrical systems in place that have been installed over the past 50 years. Many of the systems would not be used today, but they are in place and operational. If that makes sense. So not only does an older plant have numerous types of electrical connections they also may not have the latest blueprints showing where the electrical lines are. We have reported numerous incidents where workers hit a buried live electrical line that was not listed on the drawings. We have also posted incidents where workers shut off power to a building. They made the assumption that the power was off. It was not, the power box these workers opened was live. They were unaware that the box was connected directedly to the outside. The workers were either severely injured or killed. We are concerned of the tone of what we write. With that said, we are saddened that we can not recall if the workers were injured or died. We pray that they lived.

Because of this blog we can walk into any plant and point out hidden hazards. Electrical hazards are one that we commonly point out. 

 

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