Incident date: 2025-02-12
NAICS industry code: 238210

At about 1:10 p.m., on February 12, 2025, an employee was using adhesive labels to mark conductors in a motor control center (MCC). As he touched one of the conductors, the lug broke off the motor control center bucket and made contact with a surface. This caused an arc flash, which burned the employee's right hand and 2% of their body. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to electric arc
code_source: title: Switchboards, panels, fuses
code_nature: title: Electrical burns  any degree
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  unspecified
severity: moderate