Incident date: 2024-05-28
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was drilling a quarter-inch hole into a 277-volt bus bar and sustained electrical burns to their face and arms from an arc flash.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to electric arc
code_source: title: Switchboards, panels, fuses
code_nature: title: Electrical burns  any degree
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate