A journeyman electrician was found dead in an office building crawl space after he had changed a ballast. He was new to the job site but had been given a familiarization tour a few days before the incident. He had been assigned to change the ballast in the overhead light fixture, and been warned to disconnect the equipment. The victim had used a mechanical device to remove the ceiling panel for access to the 347 volt ballast. He had removed the wrong ceiling panel; the correct one was two panels away. It appears that rather than getting the mechanical device again to […]