Fatal Four Part Three: Electrocution - September 2026 - Week 36
We have covered falls, struck-by, and caught-in or between. This week we close out the Fatal Four with electrocution, the fourth leading cause of workplace fatality in construction and one of the most serious electrical hazards across manufacturing, maintenance, and industrial environments. Electrocution is the word used specifically for a fatal electrical shock, but this week we are covering the full spectrum of electrical hazards, from non-fatal shocks and arc flash events to the conditions that lead to electrocution, because the same situations that produce one can produce the other depending on variables the worker often cannot see or control.
What makes electrical hazards different from most of what we have covered in this series is that you cannot always see them. A fall hazard is visible. A pinch point is visible. Electrical current in a wire, in a panel, in a piece of equipment is invisible until it finds a path. And when it does, the consequences arrive faster than any person can respond to them.
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