Investigations are currently underway into an incident at the north Appin mine, where an electrician suffered burns from an ...

Protect yourself against Arc Flash injuriesEveryday across North America, electrical workers are killed by the profession they have chosen: Utility Lineman, Industrial Electricians, Electrical Con. . ...

The Western Mass Public Utilities Co-op hosted Rodney Walker, an arc flash survivor, who told his story of survival at the Westfield Gas & Electric/Whip City Fiber Operations Center on March 13 as ...

A quick response to arc faults is essential. However, a lot of available protection equipment is prone to registering accidental trips rather than faults, as well as responding too slowly or ...

As part of a drive to improve electrical safety in heavy industry, this paper presents a case history on an electrical arc flash accident. The accident occurred on a 3.3-kV-fused contactor which was ...

A safety expert sits down with OH&S magazine to discuss why implementing proper risk assessment goes hand-in-glove with having the right PPE. Arc flash and shock hazards continue to take their ...

From our accident investigations, we have observed that in numerous instances, if the worker had protected themselves against electrical shock and adhered to these electrical shock principles, they ...

Annually more than 2000 workers are admitted to hospital burn centers for extensive injuries caused by arc flash accidents. Arc flash incidents occur when unintended electric current flows through air ...

Two Hawaiian Electric (HECO) employees are in serious condition after suffering electrical burns while working on the Iwilei Substation on Sunday.

An arc flash occurs due to a phase-to-ground or phase-to-phase short circuit. The extreme heat, light, and pressure blasts associated with these events make it necessary to take precautions when ...

Day & Zimmerman NPS Inc. is facing $71,599 in proposed penalties stemming from an arc flash accident at Sequoyah that burned two workers and sent them to a local hospital in March.

Two contractors working near a 6.9kV electrical bus were injured in an arc flash incident last Friday at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Soddy-Daisy, TN, northeast of ...