Fourth
Quarter - October to December, 2004
Date & Program Location Accident Description
MIS
ID #
Fatalities:
There were no fatal
injuries of an electrical nature reported to the Ministry of Labour for the
fourth quarter of 2004.
Critical Injuries:
October 12th Industrial vicinity of Worker
was in bucket truck doing tree trimming.
Worker
1060960 Stayner moved bucket in wrong
direction, head contacted overhead
power
lines. Worker lost consciousness, taken
to hospital.
Power
lines were operating at 220 volts.
October 13th Construction Tecumseh Linesman
was using hot stick to place fuse in padmount
1057565 switching
cubicle, worker received 16 kV through right hand,
exiting
through right foot. Worker had to have
right arm
amputated
up to elbow. Rubber gloves not being
worn at time
of
event.
October 15th Construction Vaughan Worker
doing work on an electrical panel, panel exploded.
1059348 Worker
received burns to face and chest. Panel
voltage not
given.
October 17th Industrial Thorold Worker
removing racks and replacing them in a fridge.
There
1061197 was
an explosion, worker received an electrical shock.
Worker
knocked unconscious, taken to hospital.
There were
dangling
wires in the fridge, capable of touching the floor.
No
information given why wires were there.
October 29th Industrial Toronto Worker
doing work in elevator machine room, made electrical
1028121 contact. Lost consciousness, received electrical
burns.
November 9th Industrial Thunder Bay Worker
plugged in a vacuum, received a shock.
Could not let
1062059 go,
passed out for a few minutes. Worker
also received burns
to
right index finger and right thumb.
Worker taken to
hospital,
receptacle was replaced.
Non-Critical Injuries:
October 4th Construction Thunder
Bay Worker was making a connection
for the secondary service,
1060721 flash
occurred. Worker received flash burns
to face, taken to
hospital.
October 19th Industrial Vaughan Worker
touched an electrical panel, received a shock.
Worker
1059455 has
burns on hand, taken to hospital. Panel
voltage not given.
October 20th Construction Hamilton Worker
was installing a new panel, contacted 600 volts.
1060788 Worker
taken to hospital.
October 22nd Construction Waterloo Worker
was drilling into a wall, struck a live cable.
Worker
1060689 received
a shock, sent to hospital.
October 25th Industrial Mississauga Worker
was verifying circuit numbering before turning circuit
1060015 off,
touched a 240 V wire. Received shock,
taken to hospital.
October 25th Industrial Kitchener Worker
put hand inside toaster oven, received a shock.
1060777 Worker
taken to hospital.
November 4th Construction Toronto A
fourth-year apprentice made electrical contact, no details
1060422 given
of injuries suffered or work being done at the time.
November 5th Construction Ottawa Worker
sustained minor injuries from an electrical contact,
1059152 no
other details given.
November 19th Construction Hamilton Worker
working on broken water line, used jumper cable to do
1061909 repair. Received an electrical contact, hand was red
and
bruised. Taken to hospital.
November 26th Industrial Toronto Worker
plugged in a power bar, received a shock.
Worker
1061116 taken
to hospital, defective receptacle was replaced.
November 27th Construction Mississauga Worker
received a shock from a faulty power cord connected
1062745 to
a floor sander.
November 30th Industrial Warkworth Worker
was operating a dishwasher, received a shock.
Arm
1062987 ached
for a while.
November 30th Industrial Trenton Worker
was resetting(sic) a water heater fuse, when there was
1062998 an
explosion in the main electrical panel feeding the water
heater. Three other workers had to exit the area
through the
smoke
from the explosion, went to hospital with breathing
concerns.
December 7th Construction Mississauga Worker
received electrical contact, no other details of event
1063102 given.
December 9th Construction Paris Worker
was installing a watermain, received electrical shock.
1054513 Worker
fell to ground, did not lose consciousness.
No details
given
of source of electrical current.
December 13th Industrial Toronto Worker
was doing work on lighting circuit, received a 347 V
1061466 shock
from wiring in a junction box.
December 14th Construction Burlington Worker
was doing work on light switch, wires were live.
1061816 Worker
made contact with 347 V, received burns on both
hands.
December 15th Industrial Tecumseh Worker
made contact with 480 volts, taken to hospital for
1063536 heart
monitoring. No details given of work
being done.
December 22nd Construction Milton Transformer
exploded while being energized. Two
workers
1062115 received
burns. No details given on type of
transformer.
Powerline
Contacts – No Injuries:
October 1st Construction Brampton Installing
a fence, hit buried 16 kV power line.
1060648
October 4th Construction Brampton Backhoe
cut buried primary cable.
1060695
October 6th Construction Aurora Contractor
installing watermain, contacted primary cable.
1059758 Note – This is different
contractor and location from event #1059946
October 6th Construction Aurora Caterpillar
385 backhoe hit a hydro pole, pole replaced.
1059946 Note – This is different
contractor and location from event #1059758
October 6th Farming Haldimand Farmer
harvesting corn, front-end loader contacted neutral of
1060070 Township primary power line.
October 7th Construction Newmarket Backhoe
ripped down an overhead power line.
1059741
October 12th Construction Thunder Bay Backhoe
dug up a buried power line.
1061686
October 13th Construction Dundas Contract
made with 2400 V overhead power line.
No details
1059862 given
of equipment involved.
October 13th Construction Woodbridge Event
classified as powerline contact, no other details given.
1059868
October 15th Construction Kingston Contractor
dug into 5 kV primary cable.
1062076
October 18th Construction Niagara-on-the- Excavator
pulled own an overhead power line.
1058755 Lake
October 19th Construction Vaughan Contact
made with buried cable. No locates had
been done.
1059947
November 2nd Construction Toronto Electrical
contact, no other details given.
1060319
November 3rd Construction Cobourg Crew
replacing old pole with a new one. New
pole tipped
1061831 over,
caused centre phase to touch outer phase.
November 9th Construction Capreol Excavating
on a roadway, cut a 2400 V buried cable.
1059944
November 9th Industrial London Backhoe
contacted a buried primary cable.
1060428
November 12th Construction Geraldton Contractor
dug up a buried high-voltage hydro line.
1062225 &
1062683 – same event
November 12th Construction Emily Township Contractor
dug up powerline. Locates had been done
but
1062268 missed
a six-foot bulge in line placement.
November 23rd Construction Thunder Bay Blasting
operations, one mat became airborne and touched
1062582 the
25 kV power line.
November 24th Construction Toronto Backhoe
dug up a 27 kV cable.
1062609
November 26th Construction London Contractor’s
vehicle caught on a 16 kV power line.
No details
1060856 given
on type of vehicle.
November 29th Construction Thunder Bay Tractor-trailer
unit backed into a transformer, knocked down
1062727 the
25 kV power line.
November 30th Construction Aurora Box
of dump truck pulled down an overhead line.
1061186
November 30th Construction Atikokan area Contractor
doing tree trimming, dropped a tree onto a
1062830 44
kV power line.
December 9th Construction Hamilton Worker
doing hand digging, contacted feed for street lights.
1062437
December 15th Construction Ajax 5-section
scaffolding fell, hitting a power line.
1062428
December 17th Construction Grimsby Contractor
doing drilling, hit a high-voltage buried cable.
1063634
December 18th Construction Brampton While
doing an excavation, worker hit 16 kV buried line.
1064854 Locates
had been done, but there were discrepancies.
Fatals: Criticals: Non-criticals: Powerline Electrical
Contacts: Equipment:
2004 0 6 19 28 0
2003 0 7 19 37 0
2002 0 4 15 37 1
2001 5 9 28 33 1
2000 2 8 15 30 1
1999 2 7 21 30 1
1998 1 8 15 29 2
And Finally…..
November 3rd Industrial Timmins New
employee being signed on, banged her knee on table as
1052351 she
went to sit down. She felt weak, and as
she was going
down
she banged her head on the table and lost consciousness.
Worker
went home. No details given of how her
second day
on
the job went.
Information taken
from Ministry of Labour MIS database
Report prepared: February
1, 2005
Assembled by: Michael Reiser
Engineer
PSS – Kitchener
District
Phone: (519) 883-5682
FAX: (519) 883-5694
E-Mail: mike.reiser@mol.gov.on.ca