Incident date: 2022-10-13
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was performing electrical maintenance on a breaker switch. While the employee was wiping dust off the breaker, the breaker powered on and the employee was shocked. The employee was hospitalized with third-degree burns to his hands and torso.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree electrical burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate