Incident date: 2022-05-20
NAICS industry code: 561612

A security officer and an employee were going outside in the rain to allow a visitor entry to a secured tractor trailer lot. The employee went toward the key pad to enter the code that allows the active electric fence to open. The employee slipped on the wet ground and their umbrella made contact with the 7,000-volt electric fence. The employee sustained an electrical shock from his arm throughout his body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate