Incident date: 2017-03-08
NAICS industry code: 423110

An employee was holding on to the valves of two cylinders of MIG welding gas on two adjacent welding machines and was shocked (110V) due to an internal short in one of the machines. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate