Incident date: 2024-11-21
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee bent down to retrieve a tool from a bucket when a concentric neutral wire that was peeled back from an underground cable being spliced contacted their left eye. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate