Incident date: 2019-11-12
NAICS industry code: 221310

An employee was installing sprinklers for landscaping while a dump truck from another company was dumping sand close to a highline wire. The dump truck hit the energized wire, causing it to split and fall on top of the employee. He received an electrical shock and experienced trouble breathing, a sore chest, and burns from the neck down.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate