Incident date: 2020-06-05
NAICS industry code: 221115

An employee was walking into a wind tower to check on a restart failure inside the cabinet at the base of the wind turbine. An arc flash caused burns to the employee's chest, neck, and face.

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: Head, neck, and trunk
severity: moderate