Incident date: 2020-09-02
NAICS industry code: 335313

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a medium volt switchgear. The employee began to wipe the area with a rag and sustained an electric shock (13,800 volts) to the left arm. The employee was hospitalized and has second degree burns on six percent of their body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Second degree electrical burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate