THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, August 1, 1996 TAG: 9608010506
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Metro briefs
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS LENGTH: 26 lines
A contractor working on an electrical panel at Newport News Shipbuilding was electrocuted Wednesday, authorities said.
Timothy Norris, 28, of Norfolk, was pronounced dead at Riverside Regional Medical Center about 2:30 p.m., hospital spokesman David Edwards said.
Shipyard spokeswoman Jerri Fuller Dickseski declined to provide details of the accident. But a witnesses said Norris, an employee of Norfolk-based Atlantic Ordinance & Gyro Company Inc., came into contact with a 440-volt electrical panel.
When shipyard emergency medical personnel arrived, Norris was in cardiac arrest, witnesses said.
Edmund McNutt, owner of Atlantic Ordinance & Gyro, could not be reached for comment.
The shipyard notified the Norfolk office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the accident, said Tom Pope, OSHA Norfolk area director. ``It's under investigation,'' Pope said.
KEYWORDS: ELECTROCUTION NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING ACCIDENT
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