Incident date: 2018-10-29
NAICS industry code: 236220

Employees were breaking the concrete median of a road under construction (widening) with a jack hammer. The jack hammer struck an electrical duct bank causing an arc flash. Two employees were burned and hospitalized.

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