Incident date: 2015-07-10
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee standing adjacent to an asphalt dump truck received an electric shock that rendered him unconscious when the bed of the dump truck contacted an overhead electric line. The ground on which the injured employee was standing was wet at the time of the incident. The injured employee suffered burns and blistering on his legs and damage to the big toe on his right foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Dump truck
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate