Incident date: 2017-08-14
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was operating a bucket lift with a coworker riding along. They were positioning the bucket lift prior to trimming branches off a tree. They were about two feet away from the tree and any powerlines when an arc came through the bucket controllers and burned the employee's hands and chest. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate