Incident date: 2015-07-07
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was establishing temporary power for office trailers by installing a ground lug on a ground bar on a motor control center (MCC). The employee used a wrench to tighten the lug and contacted an energized circuit or an energized buss bar of the 480-volt MCC. 

The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Wrenches-power not determined
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate