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Two dock workers from Liverpool have sustained serious personal injuries in an accident at work after suffering electric shocks of more than 6,500 volts.
Despite not being a trained electrician, a 33-year-old maintenance worker was instructed to investigate power loss to a crane. The employee sought out the assistance of an electrician and both men went to Seaforth Container Terminal where the crane was situated.
The two men opened up a junction box in order to investigate the problem, however while testing the electricity supply using a low voltage multimeter there was a flash of light and the two men suffered severe electric shocks.
The maintenance worker was temporarily blinded from the flash and sustained serious burns to his face and hands which have left him with permanent scarring. The electrician also suffered burn injuries from the power surge.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into the work accident revealed that the men had not been provided with any information about the crane they were working on and mistakenly assumed that it was low voltage, like the one next to it.
Liverpool Magistrates' Court heard the maintenance company admit to three breaches of the Electricity at Work Regulations and fined them £15,000 as well as £14,000 in court costs, as a result of the accident at work.
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