Incident date: 2020-11-10
NAICS industry code: 221122

Two employees were responding to a power outage. They were pulling in a secondary conductor while up on a distribution pole. One or both employees went to attach the conductor and contacted an energized high-voltage power line. Both employees were hospitalized with burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low