Incident date: 2021-05-01
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was standing on the bed of a crane, waiting to unhook a concrete block that the crane had just lifted off the ground. The crane hit an energized electrical wire and the employee was shocked, suffering internal burns and a heart arrhythmia. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate