Incident date: 2015-08-12
NAICS industry code: 561730

A crew was trimming tree limbs away from power lines. An employee got too close to the power lines and the current arced from the wire onto the employee whose shirt caught fire and burned his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
code_source: title: Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate