Incident date: 2018-07-22
NAICS industry code: 326122

An employee was checking the vacuum on a machine when he noticed that the water level was getting high in the slurry. He discovered that pellets were clumping together; when he tried to stir the water, he received an electrical shock caused by a wire that had shorted out. He suffered head and neck pain and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate