Incident date: 2022-12-11
NAICS industry code: 221119

An employee was replacing an underground cable. While taking the bad cable off the transformer, the wrench made contact with rings on the transformer and an arc flash occurred. The employee sustained first and second-degree burns and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: First degree electrical burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate