About two weeks before this fatality, an electrical plug on a power cable of a welding machine was found to be damaged. The broken piece was the protective aluminum cover which housed the plug attached to a 440 volt 60 amp line. The damaged plug cover was reported to the plant electrician. He did not have another aluminum cover in stock, so he taped rubber around the plug to form a shield. Assuming no one would try to use the damaged plug, he left it in the work area. On the day of the incident, another worker had unwrapped the tape around […]
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