Incident date: 2015-04-30
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee removed screws from a bus bar in a panel board, resulting in an electrical short that caused an arc flash. The employee was hospitalized with severe burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate