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A 10 page paper which examines the different kinds of injuries, accidents and health risks that can occur and how these hazards could be avoided. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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and maintenance of electrical devices and wiring for homes, offices and nearly all types of contemporary building structures (Construction Trades and Related, 2002, p. 34). According to Richard Chandler,
who is the training director for Fort Wayne, Indianas International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (Local #305), electricians "do everything from setting services outside a house to completing all the wiring
in a house, such as all the power for plugs, lights, and sometimes fire-alarm and security systems" (Gater, 2000, p. 25). After serving a lengthy apprenticeship, the state grants
an electricians license, which allows a trained professional to practice this highly skilled trade and earn nearly $25 an hour (Gater, 2000). However, this pay hardly compensates for the
many hazards awaiting electricians each day on their worksites, who along with their carpenter counterparts account for 9 percent of all the construction work fatalities, or 11 for every 100,000
employees (Toscano and Windau, 1994, p. 17). Electrocutions are the hazards most closely associated with the electrician vocation, and according to
1997 statistics, result in 59 percent of workplace deaths (Workplace Fatalities, 1997, p. 13). John Sevcik, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been an electrician for well over thirty years,
and has just barely lived to tell about it (Licher, 2000). Of the electricity that can prove to be an equally formidable friend or adversary, Sevcik remarks, "You
cant fear it, because you have to work with it. But you must respect it. You have to constantly remember that youre working with a very powerful, deadly force. One
wrong move or stupid mistake and you put your life on the line, as well as the lives of your co-workers" (Licher, 2000). Despite his painstaking adherence to safety
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