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Fatal Incident - Safe Isolation failure?

What do we think on this incident, reported a bit differently in these two locations:

Whilst very sad and no-one should lose their life in the workplace (or anywhere else) I can't help thinking that an engineer of 30 years' experience should have been familiar with safe isolation procedures, and perhaps these were not followed.  There are of course many unreported possibilities such as multiple supply sources not identified but if you follow the mantra of poking a verified test device probe in before anything else (like your fingers or a screwdriver….), then your chances of falling victim are much reduced.

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  • Depends on the sort of servicing - maybe he was not an electrical type , but sent to check the oil levels or change a belt.  I agree there might have been holes in his training or shortcuts taken in the process used, but we do not know the full story, and should probably not speculate too wildly.

    Sad news whatever, and I would say really very unlucky in any case - there are far more shocks that lead to a lot of swearing and count as near misses than deaths.

    mike

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  • Depends on the sort of servicing - maybe he was not an electrical type , but sent to check the oil levels or change a belt.  I agree there might have been holes in his training or shortcuts taken in the process used, but we do not know the full story, and should probably not speculate too wildly.

    Sad news whatever, and I would say really very unlucky in any case - there are far more shocks that lead to a lot of swearing and count as near misses than deaths.

    mike

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