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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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0 Chris Pearson over 3 years ago

A bit difficult to prove dead if it is the enclosure itself which is live!
The fact that the worker in the OP lay unnoticed for an hour sounds bad, but unless somebody was present, it wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome.
It also suggests that that particular part of the premises was not visited often. Like Zoom's garage light, an ECP may have been live for years, but nobody touched it.
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0 Chris Pearson over 3 years ago

A bit difficult to prove dead if it is the enclosure itself which is live!
The fact that the worker in the OP lay unnoticed for an hour sounds bad, but unless somebody was present, it wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome.
It also suggests that that particular part of the premises was not visited often. Like Zoom's garage light, an ECP may have been live for years, but nobody touched it.
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