Data from the US Dept. of Labor indicate that workers in the US construction industry encounterthe highest risk of electrical hazards. To establish a hierarchy of electrical hazards and controls, this paperaims to identify hazardous patterns for electrocution in the US construction industry through a quantitativeapproach. The identified patterns are found to be a result of a combination of general factors relevant to electricalfatalities, including: time, location, victim, environment, agent, etc. A total of 138 construction-related fatalitycases between 1989 and 2010 from the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program were firstexamined, using 13 factors, and resulted in a digital data sheet to identify hazardous patterns. Then trainingscenarios, which address hazardous environments and respond through the proper protective actions, werecreated. Once scenarios are developed, a cloud technology-based 3D safety training prototype is simulated andpresented.
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