Incident date: 2018-10-03
NAICS industry code: 237310

Employees were finishing concrete on the second floor of a deck. An employee was about to mop the concrete with a 10-foot pole. Noticing that the top of the pole was about 6-8 feet from a power line, he moved to grab the pole; he then felt a shock and fell backwards onto another employee. Both received electrical burns and were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Co-worker or work associate of injured or ill worker, unspecified
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low