Incident date: 2018-05-07
NAICS industry code: 424510

After delivering product at a customer's farm, an employee was driving a feed truck away from the farm when the feed trailer's raised auger came into contact with an electrical line. The employee exited the cab of the truck and came into contact with the electrical current, suffering severe burns. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate