Incident date: 2020-07-21
NAICS industry code: 237130

The employee was working from a bucket truck transferring live wires from an old power pole to a new pole. The employee's lanyard got close enough to a live wire that an arc flash occurred. The employee sustained second degree burns where the metal parts of the harness contacted his body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Second degree electrical burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate