Incident date: 2023-03-06
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was using a 2-foot fiberglass pole pruner to cut bushes when it made contact with a 7200kV power line. The employee was hospitalized with electrical burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Scissors, snips, shears-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate