Incident date: 2020-05-12
NAICS industry code: 333611

An employee was taking out old parts of a 690-volt electrical panel. When the employee removed one of the panel's doors and placed it next to the live side of the panel, an arc flash burned both of the employee's hands. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate