Incident date: 2019-06-04
NAICS industry code: 336611

Before noon on June 4, 2019, a marine inspector was conducting an inspection on board a fishing vessel at a shipyard. As the employee was climbing out of the vessel's anchor chain locker, he was shocked by a damaged extension cord running through a chain attached to shelving on a bulkhead. He suffered nerve damage to his thumb and thermal burns to his forearm muscle, and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle
code_source: title: Commercial fishing vessel
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate