The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently cited Eversource Energy Service Co. for five violations of workplace safety standards after its ...

The molten metal created by an arc flash presents a significant ignition ... so it is easy to see how shirt ignition can lead within seconds to a fatal level of body burn. Why is percent body ...

IMAGINE being an employee in a workplace and going about your duties as you would on a daily basis . . . and an arc flash occurs. There is an explosive pressure wave and fire breaks out.

Discover why NFPA 70E is the benchmark standard OSHA relies on when investigating arc flash and electrocution incidents.

Federal safety officials on Thursday cited and fined Eversource for five workplace safety standards violations stemming from a fatal arc flash and arc blast that occurred this summer outside the ...

Although arc-flash explosions and other electrical incidents comprise just a small sliver of the overall number of work-related incidents, NFPA and IEEE point out that “they are disproportionately ...

Arc flash, also known as flashover ... While many electrical injuries prove fatal, those that are not can be particularly debilitating, oftentimes involving complicated recoveries and lasting ...

Due to the nature of electrical work, the partnership maintains that arc-flash events will occur, but the fatal and catastrophic injuries are almost always caused by clothing ignition, not the ...

Major changes involve updates to fall protection, arc flash hazard analysis ... the new standards aim to prevent serious and fatal injuries. Exposure to temperatures of 176F for one-tenth of ...

The guidance makes it clear that low voltage, including 120/208, can sustain arc flash, produce molten metal, ignite flammable clothing, and cause severe or fatal injury. All energized work over 50V ...

WESTFIELD — The Western Mass Public Utilities Co-op hosted Rodney Walker, an arc flash survivor on March 13 at the Westfield Gas & Electric/Whip City Fiber Operations Center. Linemen and other ...