Incident date: 2017-06-04
NAICS industry code: 621111

On June 4, 2017, at 5:40 p.m., an employee was unloading a patient from the back of an ambulance. While he was holding onto the door of the ambulance, lightning struck the vehicle. He suffered respiratory arrest and lost consciousness, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Ambulance, police, and other emergency passenger vehicle
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate