State regulators order Santa Fe to stop electrical work in wake of employee's death
In the wake of a fatal accident in which a 27-year-old convention center employee was electrocuted on the job, prompting a cease-and-desist order from state regulators, the city of Santa Fe is using licensed contractors for electrical repair and maintenance work.
The state Construction Industries Division ordered the city of Santa Fe last month to stop all such work by its staff after Tobin “Toby” Williams, a mechanical structural apprentice who had been on the job less than seven months, was electrocuted April 1 while working alone on a lift to change a light fixture in the Santa Fe Community Convention Center kitchen ceiling. He died two days later in a Denver hospital, where he was taken for treatment.
An accident report filed by his supervisor, Melanie Moore, operations manager at the facility, said Williams “appeared to cut or strip a wire that resulted in an electrical shock.”
According to state regulators, Williams wasn’t supposed to be working on his own. The law requires work by an apprentice such as Williams to be performed under the direct supervision of what the state called a validly certified journeyman.
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