Incident date: 2018-05-28
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was in an underground electrical vault, splicing a damaged electrical cable. A different 12-kilovolt cable (not the one being repaired) had an arc fault. The arc flash caused first-degree burns to the employee's face and second-degree burns to both hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Electric parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree electrical burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate