Incident date: 2025-06-20
NAICS industry code: 541330

The general contractor, their subcontractor, and the local utility company were re-energizing a transformer when it exploded. The top of the transformer blew off and hot oil projected into the air. The injured employee was a bystander to the event and was outside of the exclusion area. Hot transformer oil rained down on him and he sustained first, second, and third-degree burns, as well as hearing loss both temporary and permanent in nature.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  third degree or higher
code_body: title: Part of body  unspecified
severity: moderate