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Current Metering Safety Topics
1. 1
10/02/2012 Slide 1
Current Metering
Safety Topics
Prepared by Tom Lawton, TESCO
The Eastern Specialty Company
For North Carolina Electric Meter School
Single Phase Panel Discussion
Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.
2. 2
Metering Safety
Fatal Electrical Injuries
• The 154 electrical fatalities that occurred during 2016
represent a 15% increase over the 2015 total.
• Exposure to electric current increased one place to
sixth on the list of occupational exposures leading to
fatal on-the-job injury, trading places with aircraft
fatalities.
• Once again, electrocutions constituted the vast
majority of electrical fatalities while electrical burns of
all degrees were responsible for four fatalities.
3. 3
Metering Safety
Fatal Electrical Injuries
• The highest rate of fatal electrical injury in 2016
occurred in the Utility industry (0.87/100,000),
followed closely by the Construction industry
(0.82/100,000).
• In 2016, there was one electrical fatality for every 34
fatalities from all causes versus one for every 36
fatalities in 2015. The long-term trend has declined
from one electrical fatality for each 23 fatalities from
all causes in 2003 to the 2016 level of one in 34.
4. 4
Does Age Matter – Or Experience?
Fatal Electrical Injuries
• In 2016, 3% of fatalities from all causes involved electricity. The data show
that younger workers experience fatal electrical injury at up to 2.3 times the
frequency of more experienced workers.
– Workers 16 to 17 years of age experienced electrical fatalities at 2 times
the average for all age groups;
• 18 to 19 years age group - 2.3 times;
• 20 to 24 years age group - 1.7 times;
• 25 to 34 years age group - 1.3 times, and;
• those 45 years and up are at or below the average frequency of
electrical injury.
5. 5
Non-Fatal Electrical Injuries
• The median number of days away from work for nonfatal electrical
injuries was 5.
• More electrical burn injuries (270) than electric shock injuries (150)
occurred in the Construction industry in 2016. Numbers of electrical
shock injuries for the Utility industry were unavailable for 2016, while
50 electrical burn injuries were recorded.
• The Utility industry rate of nonfatal electrical injury involving days
away from work (0.9/10,000) surpassed the Construction industry
rate (0.7/10,000) in 2016.
• The Mining industry had rate of nonfatal electrical burn injury of
1.0/10,000 for 2016, followed by the Utility industry (0.9) followed by
the construction industry (0.4). The rate for all of Private industry
remained consistent at 0.1.
6. 6
How Dangerous is
Metering?
Electricity is Organized Lightning – George Carlin
Any Voltage without current will not kill you, but any
voltage with current can kill you.
8. 8
Safety First - PPE
Personal Protective Equipment
• Leathers
• Rubber Gloves
• Face Shield
• FR Clothing
• Safety Shoes
9. 9
Arc Flash
What is Arc Flash?
While an arc flash is sometimes used
interchangeably with “arc fault”, an arc flash is
more accurately defined as the light produced
during an arc fault. An arc fault is a type of
electrical fault that results from the breakdown of
an insulating medium between two conductors
where the energy is sufficient to sustain an arc
across the insulator (often air) and can cause
extreme amounts of light (arc flash), immense
heat upwards of 19,000 degrees C, and a
resulting explosive pressure wave (arc blast).
These forces combine to create a hazardous
condition that can vaporize metal, destroy
equipment, and pose a significant hazard to
anyone in the vicinity.
12. 12
How Bad Can Things Get?
Many thanks to Dominion Power
https://youtu.be/2Xoyb9M5-EA
Rubber Gloves and FR 4:10
Meter enclosure – shorted out 10:48
Thanks to Meter Grabber
https://youtu.be/Azuu8VnM36g
13. 13
Field Audits, Trouble
Shooting and Testing
• Always approach an electrical service with caution and
while wearing your full PPE. Why?
• Never stand directly in front of the meter when
removing the meter
• Before you even open the box or get the cover off….
• Live box
• Bees
• Other live animals
• Broken Seal
• Cover dropping off
16. 16
Once the box is Open
Issues to Look For
• Open line – open line side connection to
the meter socket.
• Missing neutral – missing neutral
connection to the center lug in the meter
socket
• Cross phase condition – cross wiring
between the test block and the meter
socket.
• Hidden jumpers line to load – diversion on
both legs.
• Dead Short - dead short phase to ground
on the load side of one leg of the socket.
• Partial Short - partial short phase to
ground on the load side of one leg of the
socket
17. 17
Backfeed, Ground Fault and other Issues
to Look For
• Back fed meter socket
• Ground fault
• Phase to phase fault
• Pulling a meter jaw with the meter
19. 19
Summary
• Be Careful
• Assume the box is live
• Assume there is something
live in the box
• Treat electricity with
respect
• Treat all meter boxes with
respect
20. 20
Questions?
Tom Lawton
TESCO – The Eastern Specialty Company
Bristol, PA
215-785-2338
This presentation can also be found under Meter
Conferences and Schools on the TESCO website:
www.tescometering.com
