Incident date: 2016-12-28
NAICS industry code: 325412

An employee locked a machine out, opened the panel door, and was reattaching a wire nut onto a conduit when his hand touched a live wire. He was shocked and suffered a burn on his hand, requiring hospitalization. Although the machine was de-energized at the time of the incident, power was still coming into it through a box at the top of the machine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Electrical burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate