Incident date: 2016-07-25
NAICS industry code: 423810

An employee was using needle-nose pliers to change a fuse in a switchgear panel when an arc blast/flash occurred, causing flash burns to his right arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate