Incident date: 2019-08-22
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was in a bucket trimming limbs with a hydraulic stick saw. A cut limb fell onto a primary power line, pushing the primary line down into the neutral line. The resulting arc flash burned the employee's right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate