Incident date: 2023-05-02
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was terminating new feeders into a 4,000-amp switch gear. While moving wires that were dangling, one of the wires came in contact with a phase bus that created a ground fault and an arc blast. The employee sustained third-degree burns to the right side of his neck and burns to the right arm and left hand that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree electrical burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate