Incident date: 2021-06-28
NAICS industry code: 238210

Employees were tracing a line of a transformer to conduct repair after the transformer had been struck by lightning. The transformer was for an irrigation machine. Employees dug a ditch and found that there was another primary line which was damaged and not in use. The injured employee was checking this line with a low voltage meter. When he checked the second phase, an arc flash occurred. The employee was hospitalized with burns to his left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate