Incident date: 2016-12-15
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was terminating underground cables in a three-phase switching cabinet when an arc flash occurred, causing first and second degree burns to the employee's face. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Second degree electrical burns
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate