Incident date: 2017-11-04
NAICS industry code: 333992

An employee was helping a maintenance electrician work on street lighting. The maintenance electrician pulled the 75-amp breaker in the panel and a small piece of the breaker broke off, staying inside the panel. The electrician was trying to retrieve the broken piece when it fell into the panel, striking the bus bar and causing an arc flash. The employee was holding a flashlight next to the electrician when the arc flash occurred. He suffered burns and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate