Incident date: 2018-02-19
NAICS industry code: 236116

An employee was on the third-story balcony of an apartment complex. He was pulling up a 25-foot section of gutter with a rope so that it could be installed. When the employee grabbed the section of gutter the end of it hit a power line. The electricity exited out of the employees left foot causing an exit-wound burn.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Gutters, downspouts
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate