Incident date: 2025-02-26
NAICS industry code: 541611

An employee was doing a post-construction inspection after the telephone company worked on a pole. The employee put a 17-foot fiberglass stick against the pole, and was strapping a bungee cord around the pole so it wouldn t fall, when he contacted a faulty ground wire and sustained an electric shock.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity  unspecified
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Electrocution, electric shock
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate