# ELECTRICAL
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220082400040` · 08/15/2008 · Asarco LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** ELECTRICAL
- **Accident type:** Contact with electrical current
- **Occupation:** Electrician helper
- **Activity:** Electrical maintenance
- **Injury source:** ELECTRICAL APPARATUS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** ELECT SHOCK,ELECTROCUTION
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 14 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Grupo Mexico S A B de C V
- **Operator:** Asarco LLC
- **Mine:** [0200150](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0200150)
## Narrative

Employee (electrician apprentice) and a co-worker (journeyman electrician) were working on a light fixture of the SX upper tailings booster when he came in contact with energized wire.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*