Incident date: 2024-01-22
NAICS industry code: 237130

Employees were at a mobile park servicing post-hurricane damaged homes and grounds by testing cables, re-energizing cables, and getting services ready for new mobile homes to be placed back on the lots. The injured employee was making secondary electrical connections to pre-existing cables that were on the ground where previous mobile homes were when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered partial thickness facial burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to electric arc
code_source: title: Electrical wiring building or machine
code_nature: title: Electrical burns  any degree
code_body: title: Ears and facial region  unspecified
severity: moderate