Incident date: 2017-06-02
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee and a coworker were working in an electrical room, pushing a ground cable through the top of the main distribution panel, when an arc flash occurred. The employee was thrown 5 feet back from the panel and required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate