Jul 28, 2026 · 23 min · 10 segments
"The best investigations are the ones you have to run less often because a strong pre-incident risk assessment already caught the problem first." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin…
James JunkinHost
Logan F. MartinHost
OSHA investigating a workplace incident that injured workers in a, at Dairy Farms of America in, uh, Pennsylvania.
One person was taken from the plant by a medical helicopter, and the second was taken by ambulance.
I like electricity because I love air conditioning, right? Air conditioning is great.
I'm not anti-electricity, but i- it's, it seems to me that we have an inordinate amount of, of arc flash, arc blast, and then when you start looking at it and investigating those types of incidents, I've only had two of those in my career that I had to investigate.
They all have some common features, and one of them is the procedure wasn't followed.
Um, I recently had a client that, uh, does excavation that, uh, contacted a line and, um, OSHA was there right away.
Um, but yeah, I mean, the arc flash incidents that I see are basically construction related, um, not so much general industry.
Um, but you know, people don't realize that, you know, when, when OSHA says 10 feet away or plus four inches for every kV, that they really mean it, um, because it, it's a serious, it's a serious problem, and you don't wanna be caught in those, those incidents.
I know that you had a case recently where, um, a piece of equipment touched a line and, you know-
OSHA investigating a workplace incident that injured workers in a, at Dairy Farms of America in, uh, Pennsylvania.
One person was taken from the plant by a medical helicopter, and the second was taken by ambulance.
I like electricity because I love air conditioning, right? Air conditioning is great.
I'm not anti-electricity, but i- it's, it seems to me that we have an inordinate amount of, of arc flash, arc blast, and then when you start looking at it and investigating those types of incidents, I've only had two of those in my career that I had to investigate.
They all have some common features, and one of them is the procedure wasn't followed.
Um, I recently had a client that, uh, does excavation that, uh, contacted a line and, um, OSHA was there right away.
Um, but yeah, I mean, the arc flash incidents that I see are basically construction related, um, not so much general industry.
Um, but you know, people don't realize that, you know, when, when OSHA says 10 feet away or plus four inches for every kV, that they really mean it, um, because it, it's a serious, it's a serious problem, and you don't wanna be caught in those, those incidents.
I know that you had a case recently where, um, a piece of equipment touched a line and, you know-
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